2024-04-06 17:52:00
Tel Aviv/Tehran: Tension is currently at its peak between Iran and Israel. After the Israeli attack on the Iranian embassy in Syria, there has been aggressive rhetoric from both the countries. While Iran has spoken of retaliating for the attack, Israel has vowed to respond to any attack. In such a situation, there is a possibility that both the countries may get involved in a direct war. If a fight breaks out between the two countries, it could be quite severe. The reason for this is that both the countries have strong military equipment. Let us know what is the military strength of Iran and Israel.
According to The Sun report, Iran lags behind Israel in terms of defense budget but comes somewhere in terms of the number of active troops. There is a tough competition between the two in many other matters. Israel’s defense budget is $24.2 billion while Iran’s defense budget is $9.9 billion. Israel has 612 planes and Iran has 551 planes. Iran is far ahead in terms of tanks. Iran has 4,071 tanks and Israel has 2200 tanks.
Iran has a large warship fleet
Iran has a fleet of 101 warships. Whereas Israel has 67 warships. Talking about armored vehicles, Iran has 65 thousand and Israel has 43 thousand armored vehicles. Troops i.e. the number of soldiers are seen in two ways – active soldiers and reserve soldiers. The number of active soldiers is 1,73,000 with Israel and 5,75,000 with Iran. Reserve troops: Israel has 4,65,000 and Iran has 3,50,000.
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After this attack, Iran has said that it will answer those who carried out this attack. Iran’s Foreign Ministry spokesman Nasser Kanani said Tehran would decide what kind of response to give to the attackers and what punishment would be given. Israel fears attack after Iran’s statement. Israel has alerted the Air Defense Command by canceling the leaves of its soldiers. Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu has said in a statement that if any attack occurs, it will be responded to.