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Air force
United States
Russia
5414
2176
Fighters/Multiroles
1840
1319
Bombers
162
181
52
21
Transport
805
255
Tankers
476
23
Trainers
1193
263
Additional
886
114
218
885
Attack
412
103
Additional
115
473
(Notice: The table only shows vehicles of the Air Force. Navy, Army etc not included, to read about the
air forces of all of these departments, read this article: US and Russian military aircraft - full
comparison)
years.
Even though the
graph does not exclusively show the air forces spending it does show the amount of money that the
US and Russia has spent on their military the last couple of years. This gives us an understanding of
how much more money the US military budget consists of and is a vital ingredients to why their air
force is the biggest one in the world.
has approximately 140 000 persons involved at the moment, while the USAF has almost 700 000! This
means that the latter has to train a lot more persons and therefore needs a lot more training jets.