Comparison of Russia vs NATO's Latest Military Strength 2022

At the beginning of 2022, the world is again worried about the issue of world war 3 due to the situation in Russia and Ukraine that continues to heat up.

Russia, which is one of the strongest countries in the world, continues to increase its strength on the borders of Ukraine, then for Ukraine itself, although this country's military strength is much smaller than Russia, NATO, which is the protective organization in northern Europe, intervened in the conflict. so this is not just about Russia and Ukraine, but has expanded to become Russia vs NATO.

Today zefthesite will try to compare the military strength of Russia and NATO, who do you think is the strongest?

Talking about the military, of course, we are not far from expensive items, such as weapons for defense equipment and also the salaries of military personnel, so we will first discuss in terms of money first.

As a country with military strength that is ranked second in the world, Russia certainly prepares their military strength with a lot of money. 

From the information obtained, Russia has at least prepared a budget of 154 billion US Dollars or 2,216 Trillion Rupiah in strengthening their troops.

As for NATO, which consists of about 30 countries, the military budget of this very large organization is 1.03 trillion US Dollars or 14,790 quadrillion rupiah.

The biggest contributor to Nato's total budget is, of course, the United States, which ranks first in the world's military power, it's no joke that the United States has poured around 731 billion US Dollars or around 10.5 Trillion Rupiah.

So when compared, Russia is far behind up to 5 times compared to NATO in terms of military budget.

After the budget, let's move on to the number of military personnel owned by both parties, the number of military personnel is indeed very important because it becomes the basis of strength that will later participate in any military activity.

For comparison, Russia has 1,013,000 active military personnel.

As for NATO, their active military personnel are around 3,657,000 personnel. In addition, on the reserves each side of Russia has 2,000,000 personnel and Nato has about 2,103,000 personnel. 

If you add up Russia has a combat value of 3,013,000 personnel and Nato has 5,760,000 personnel. 

The defeat in numbers from Russia is made even worse if we talk about population issues from both sides. Russia only has a population of around 146,000,000 while NATO is 446,000,000. Now from this data we can see that once again Russia lost late in terms of personnel. military rather than NATO.

From military personnel now we move to the defense equipment section here we will start from 

The first land defense system consisting of: 

Russia is still badly outnumbered by the number of land defense equipment of 137,505 and Nato of around 290,136 units, but despite being outnumbered, this shows that Russia is indeed focusing on their ground combat capabilities, compared to NATO which has 30 countries in it. 

Russia can withstand the ratio of land defense equipment strength of about one to two for each unit, the focus of this great power is because most of Russia's territory is in the form of land that is spread wide. moreover, technologically, the development of Russian land defense systems is the best. 

For example, tanks, Russia produces their own tank, the T-14 ArMata which is considered the best tank in the world for now

next We move to the air defense system from each side, to the air defense system There are many things that become important components in this section as described above. 

From the data, we can see that Russia is still outnumbered by NATO, if it is calculated properly the number of Russian air defense equipment is only 4,275 units, while NATO has 16,845 units of air defense equipment.

This vast difference is caused by the number of NATO countries that reach 30 countries with fairly distant borders, so to provide assistance, of course, the use of air defense equipment is more effective.

Apart from the number of air defense equipment from NATO, it is also known to be deadly. For example, the Eurofighter Typhoon fighter aircraft which is a collaboration between Britain, Germany, Italy and Spain, which is considered the most advanced fighter aircraft in the 21st century.

Now is the time for us to move to the marine defense equipment in this section, the marine defense equipment that will be discussed, is divided into 5 parts 

From the data obtained, Russia was again defeated in terms of numbers by NATO in the marine defense system in total, Russia only had 176 units, while for NATO they had 477 units.

but this difference is not too significant if a conflict breaks out on the border of Ukraine, where most of the terrain is land, so the sea fighting power may not be taken into account by Russia too much.

After discussing everything there is one thing we still have to discuss, namely the possession of nuclear weapons. How could this one thing be a key player in a modern military conflict. 

from the data obtained, Russia seems to have won for this point because it has a total of 16,000 nuclear warhead weapons, while NATO only has 10,510 combined from the 30 countries that are members of NATO.

well, if this bad scenario of nuclear use occurs, let alone mainland Europe, which in Southeast Asia, of course, will experience a prolonged impact from this nuclear war. That's why many experts speculate that the Russia-Ukraine conflict will subside in the near future.

From all that we have discussed earlier, we can see that in terms of numbers Russia was defeated by NATO, but this does not necessarily make Russia lose late because the card which has 30 countries as members has different interests and cannot always be full power to defend in a conflict. .

this is different from Russia which is led by a dictator where his voice is heard by all troops so that it can streamline movement in a military conflict.

Now what do you think about the conflict between these two countries, please share your opinion in the comments column and see you in the next post.