The website specialized in military affairs, Global Fire Power, revealed its annual report on the ranking of the strongest armies or the largest military forces in the Middle East and the world, where the United States of America topped the ranking as the strongest military force in the world, Russia and China came in second and third place, respectively, while Turkey ranked eighth. Globally, as one of the strongest armies in the world, Iran came in fourteenth place globally, as one of the strongest armies in the Middle East and the world, followed closely by Egypt, in fifteenth place, as one of the largest and most powerful armies in the world and the Middle East, while Israel was in seventeenth place.

Egyptian-Palestinian border

Ranking of the most powerful armies and military forces in the world in 2024:

1. America
2. Russia
3. China
4. India
5. South Korea
6. Britain
7. Japan
8. Türkiye
9. Pakistan
10. Italy
11. France
12. Brazil
13. Indonesia
14. Iran
15. Egypt
16. Australia
17. Israel
18. Ukraine
19. Germany
20. Spain

With the accelerating pace of events in the internecine war in Gaza, the many threats about the approaching invasion of the city of Rafah by Israeli forces, the threat of annihilation to the lives of hundreds of thousands of Palestinians, the Israeli forces getting closer and closer to the Egyptian border, and the escalation of the pace of statements regarding the Philadelphia axis and the exchange of accusations.

A comparison between the Egyptian and Israeli army for the year 2024 in terms of the number of soldiers, aircraft, tanks, armored vehicles, and warships for the year 2024.

Egypt :

The population is about 110 million people, of whom there are approximately 45 million people available to perform military service, including 440,000 active soldiers (the tenth largest in the world).

Egypt has a variety of military aircraft, according to Global Firepower 1080 (eighth globally), including fighters, special mission aircraft, attack helicopters, and transport.

Egypt has about 5,300 tanks (third in the world), military vehicles and armor, more than 77,000 vehicles (seventh in the world), artillery, more than 1,100 rocket launchers (fourth in the world).

While Egypt has 140 naval military vessels distributed among submarines, frigates, and aircraft carriers (ranked 22nd in the world).

Israel:

The population is about 9 million people, of whom there are about 3.5 million people available to perform military service, of whom 170,000 soldiers are currently in service (31st in the world).

Israel has 612 military aircraft, including fighters, special mission aircraft, attack helicopters, and transport vehicles (19th in the world).

Israel has 1,370 tanks (18th in the world), about 43,000 military vehicles and armored vehicles (15th in the world), and 150 artillery rocket launchers (31st in the world).

While Israel has 67 military naval vessels (46th in the world).