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India Army vs Pakistan Army
As we know there is always some tension prevails between these two nuclear-armed neighbouring countries. Looking at their current bilateral relations and it’s hard to believe that these countries were divided into two different countries from a single country after India got independence from Britishers. Looking at their bilateral relations in all these past years, it looks like they have been carrying forward this bitter animosity from ancient times. In these last seventy years, the two armies have fought four times against each other.
In this article we will try to understand the army strength of two countries on the basis of Global Firepower Ranking Index 2022. Analyzing the military strength of the two countries according to the most recent study from Global Firepower Ranking, It’s quite clear that pakistan lags much behind India and India enjoys a strong numerical advantage over Pakistan in both conventional and nuclear weapons, giving it an upper edge in dealing with its perennial enemy.
India Army vs Pakistan Army: What is Global Firepower Ranking?
It is a ranking based on total available active military manpower by country, from highest to lowest. Data given below is a researched work which has utilized over 50 individual factors to determine a given nation’s PowerIndex (PwrIndx) score. In order to give a detailed information they have collected data in the form of different categories like the defense budget of the country, its active personnel and every other small detail like the number of frigates available.
For 2022, India ranks 4 out of the 142 countries considered for the annual GFP review. It holds a PwrIndx score of 0.0979, and a score of 0.0000 is considered ‘perfect’. In terms of the total power index, India is only behind the United States, Russia, and China, while Pakistan is far behind stands at 10th place. On the other hand, Pakistan ranks 9 out of the142 countries. It holds a PwrIndx score of 0.1572.
| Countries | India | Pakistan |
| Global Firepower ranking | 4/142 | 9/142 |
| Active personnel | Rank 2
1,450,000 |
Rank 6
640,000 |
| Defence budget | Rank 6
$49,600,000,000 |
Rank 31
$7,690,148,664 |
| Fighter aircraft | Rank 4
564 |
Rank 7
357 |
| Special Missions | Rank 5
71 |
Rank 13
24 |
| Helicopters | Rank 4
805 |
Rank 11
307 |
| Tank strength | Rank 5
4614 |
Rank 11
2824 |
| Fleet Strength of Navy | Rank 7
295 |
Rank 28
114 |
| Aircaraft carriers | Rank 3
1 |
Rank 140
0 |
| Submarines | Rank 8
17 |
Rank 12
9 |
| Naval Destroyers | Rank – 6
10 |
Rank – 10
2 |
| Airports | Rank – 20
346 |
Rank – 33
151 |
| Ports & Terminals | Rank – 8
13 |
Rank – 19
2 |
If we talk about war history of both the countries, every time, Pakistan, had considered itself much more powerful than it really was, and it led to its humiliating setbacks many a times and in order to prove its capabilities Pakistan has used its cheap tactics by birthing terrorism in its own country and that has also put peace of India in peril multiple times.
But one most advantageous point to Indian Army is that their main and only task is to focus on their own operations unlike Pak Army which focuses on running businesses and institutions by interfering in politics and aims to topple the democratic government whereas In India, government has absolute control over Army and it always try to come with best of the ideas for the smooth functioning of Indian Armed forces and to make, these two institutions that is, government and Indian armed forces. cooperate well together in order to get best out of them.
