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Largest airforce anyone?

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walesdragon
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Posted: Fri Jan 25, 2008 5:13 am 
Hey guys, i was wondering what the top 3 largest Air forces were. I know for a fact the India has the forth largest... but thats it -_-"...
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Posted: Fri Jan 25, 2008 11:43 am 
My GUESS would be USA UK and Russia??
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Posted: Fri Jan 25, 2008 12:26 pm 
My guess would be USA, Russia and China. Here in the UK with all the cutbacks we have a Sopwith Camel, 3 Spitfires and a slightly rusty Lancaster in case we need to bomb someone Very Happy !
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Posted: Fri Jan 25, 2008 2:29 pm 
Welshflyer wrote:
My guess would be USA, Russia and China. Here in the UK with all the cutbacks we have a Sopwith Camel, 3 Spitfires and a slightly rusty Lancaster in case we need to bomb someone Very Happy !



thanks for the laugh, i needed that

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Posted: Fri Jan 25, 2008 3:57 pm 
Largest Air Forces (Aircraft)

1. USA 16,253

2. China 12,311

3. Russia 9,089

4. India 1,824

5. Japan 1,720
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Posted: Fri Jan 25, 2008 5:26 pm 
China got the best of both worlds... don't they fly both Russian and American jets?
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Posted: Fri Jan 25, 2008 6:27 pm 
China uses mostly US aircraft, some French and Chinese aircraft are also used.

Arrow http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Republic_of_China_Air_Force
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Posted: Fri Jan 25, 2008 10:12 pm 
Wow, great info , CRJcapt!
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Posted: Mon Jan 28, 2008 1:21 am 
walesdragon wrote:
Wow, great info , CRJcapt!


Hey, it's wikipedia. Everything about anything! Wink
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Posted: Mon Jan 28, 2008 2:29 am 
CRJCapt wrote:
Largest Air Forces (Aircraft)

1. USA 16,253

2. China 12,311

3. Russia 9,089

4. India 1,824

5. Japan 1,720

Where were the Auzzies on that chart of yours,(just being curious) and please don't say #95825648254.........
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Posted: Mon Jan 28, 2008 3:11 am 
Lol, Australia has like the smallest aircraft to sq miles ratio. D:
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Posted: Mon Jan 28, 2008 4:28 am 
Probably cause I'm up near townsville, military base and all, probably see more than most Auzzie folks. But they buying a whole heap of new planes or something, a joint project with U.S.A. And England or something? I might go and have a gander.I remember seeing it on the abc. not long ago.
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Posted: Mon Jan 28, 2008 7:37 am 
Yeah, they were gonna buy the F-22 raptor but Like Japan, Australia was refused. They are now thinking of getting the F-35 lightning.
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Posted: Tue Feb 12, 2008 6:04 pm 
warlord40 wrote:

Where were the Auzzies on that chart of yours,(just being curious) and please don't say #95825648254.........

Forgot the site where i found the number, I'll keep looking. Embarassed
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Posted: Tue Feb 12, 2008 8:08 pm 
i know that USA has the largest navy, with the UK in 2nd place, thats in displacement, bare in mind most of ours is RFA ships, lol
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