이란 군의 전력은? Washington and Tehran continues to exchange ultimatums.
Naturally... attention is drawn to whether Iran has what it takes to confront aguably the world's most powerful military.
Kan Hyeong-woo zooms in on the country's capabilities.
The United States has the strongest military in the world, but how does Iran stack up?
According to an annual review by the military ranking website Global Fire Power,... Tehran sits at 14th place out of 137 countries.
Iran has an estimated 523,000 active personnel in its army, navy, air force and the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps.
Its defense budget last year was about 6-point-3 billion U.S. dollars a pale shadow of America's 716 billion.
Iran's land power includes some 85-hundred tanks, rocket launchers and artillery.
Its naval power consists of almost 400 ships and submarines, and its air force a little over 500 planes and helicopters.
According to the Center for Strategic and International Studies,... Iran has the largest and most diverse arsenal of missiles in the Middle East.
WIth thousands of short and medium-range ballistic and cruise missiles,...the Islamic republic is capable of striking targets as far away as Israel and southeastern Europe.
A U.S. Defense Department report on Iran's military power says Tehran has been testing space technology to develop inter-continental missiles which can travel a minimum range of 55-hundred kilometers.
Released in November, the report pointed out that Iran's naval forces benefit from the state's geostrategic position in the region,... which enables them to threaten navigation in the Persian Gulf and the Strait of Hormuz.
The Pentagon's report added that Tehran has seen rapid progress in advancing its unmanned aerial vehicle capabilities.
Kan Hyeong-woo, Arirang News.
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