In the world ranking among the armies, all the countries of Central Asia are located between 60 and 120 places, which is compiled by Global Firepower. Uzbekistan is in 62nd place, Kazakhstan is in 63rd place out of 145 in the world ranking of countries in terms of the level of military power of Global Firepower. The Kazakhstan index was 1.0873, according to Zakon.kz.
The lower the index, the greater the military power of the state. The rating specialists evaluated 60 different factors, including the level of defense spending, the arsenal of equipment and equipment, the size of the army, the number of tanks, ships, aircraft and other military equipment, access to resources, oil, coal, which affect the combat capability of the army. The factor of the presence of nuclear weapons was not taken into account.
The countries with the highest levels of military power are the United States, Russia and China. Closed the rating of Bhutan.
Among the CIS countries, in addition to Russia, Kazakhstan is inferior to Azerbaijan, Belarus and Uzbekistan. Below Kazakhstan in the ranking are Turkmenistan, Armenia, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan and Moldova.
Among the CIS countries ranked higher than Kazakhstan, Russia spends $82.6 billion on defense, Ukraine - $30 billion, Azerbaijan - $3.1 billion. At the same time, the budget in Belarus and Uzbekistan turned out to be several times lower than in Kazakhstan: $723.1 million and $692.5 million, respectively, against $2.6 billion in Kazakhstan.
In the aviation of Kazakhstan, according to analysts from Global Firepower, there are 237 aircraft: 75 combat helicopters, and among the aircraft - 39 attack aircraft, 81 fighters, 17 transport and 25 training aircraft. The country's Ground Forces have 300 tanks, 5,200 armored combat vehicles, 246 self-propelled artillery mounts, 456 towed artillery units and 407 multiple launch rocket systems.
The total number of military personnel is 77 thousand people, of which 45 thousand people are active military, 32 thousand people belong to paramilitary formations, writes Finprom.kz.
In January of this year, investments in fixed assets in the field of public administration and defense, as well as compulsory social security, reached 10.6 billion tenge, which is 24.1 times more than a year earlier.
On February 23, it became known that the salaries of military pilots, teachers and doctors in Kazakhstan would be increased.
CentralasianLIGHT.org
March 6, 2023