Global Firepower has compiled an annual Military Strength Ranking. Ukraine took 18th place among 145 countries in the 2024 list
Global Firepower (GFP) is a ranking of total military power of each country in the world. Global Firepower ranking uses more than 60 separate factors to determine a particular country’s PowerIndex score by such categories as: number of military units, financial status, logistical capabilities as well as geography and so on. This year Ukraine took the 18th place with a PwrIndx of 0.2598 as of January 9, 2024. Calculations are based on the fact that the lower value of PwrIndx, the more powerful ordinary combat capability of country is.
Ranking compilers noted that a place changing does not necessarily indicate a decline in country’s military capabilities.
Сountries are ranked in such order in 2024. The first place is occupied by the United States. russian terrorist state is on the second line. China is on the third line. Israel’s army is one line higher than Ukrainian. But the Armed Forces of Ukraine are ahead of Germany and Spain`s armies.
Ukraine climbed to the 6th place in the ranking of armies in Europe and the 22nd in the world ranking in 2021. The Armed Forces of Ukraine moved up two positions in Global Firepower Index ranking of the world’s strongest armies and as of October 2020 ranked the 25th place. Ukraine ranked the 30th line in the list of the strongest armies in the world in 2017.
Someone at Global Firepower has a sense of humour. Ranking the orc military as the second most powerful in the world is a joke. If mafia land was so powerful, it wouldn’t need to go grovelling to every shithole in the world for weapons.
How is Russia no 2? This war demonstrated their ineffectiveness. I don’t buy any of the rankings.
Lazy journalism? Ukraine have decimated at least 50% of the orcs capabilities, yet Global Firepower places them just below the US in terms of points.
China is #2. 😎
This has got to be a joke.
I do think that ranking is highly questionable (Russia above China, Egypt stronger than Israel?) and don’t trust that website. There’s no information there about the company or organisation behind it at all. May well be a FSB propaganda effort.