{"id":141987,"date":"2024-10-20T20:00:12","date_gmt":"2024-10-20T10:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/5-largest-air-forces-total-military-aircraft\/"},"modified":"2024-10-20T20:00:12","modified_gmt":"2024-10-20T10:00:12","slug":"top-5-the-worlds-largest-air-forces-by-total-military-aircraft-numbers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=141987","title":{"rendered":"Top 5: The World&#8217;s Largest Air Forces By Total Military Aircraft Numbers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>            <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\" data-id=\"1835\"style=\";  ;\" class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/tag\/air-force\/\"  >Air forces<\/a><\/span> around the world are built for different missions &#8211;         <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink-article\" data-id=\"2033943\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/worlds-5-largest-tanker-aircraft-fleets\/\" >the US Air Force has around 75% of the world&#8217;s aerial tanker fleet<\/a><\/span> as it is built for power projection (most air forces are designed for defense). While the number of aircraft in an air force does not, of itself, dictate how capable an air force is, it is still a factor worth considering. The following are the aircraft totals per air force according to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.flightglobal.com\/download?ac=98881\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" >FlightGlobal&#8217;s 2024 World Air Forces report<\/a>. According to the publication, there are around 53,401             <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\" data-id=\"33261\"style=\";  ;\" class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/tag\/military\/\"  >military aircraft<\/a><\/span> in the world today.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The US has by far the most military aircraft, including some of the world&#8217;s most advanced aircraft and enabling platforms.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1258,396,397,628,412,1328],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-141987","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-air-force","category-aircraft","category-analysis","category-fighter-jets","category-military","category-united-states-air-force"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141987","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=141987"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141987\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":141988,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141987\/revisions\/141988"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=141987"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=141987"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=141987"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}