Anatoliy Amelin, director of economic programs in Ukrainian Institute for the Future calculated Ukrainian military potential.
1. By data of annual Global Firepower (GFP) for 2022 Ukrainian army occupies the 22nd place in world out of 140 (for comparison: Canada is 23rd, Poland is 24th)
2. The number of the Armed Forces of Ukraine is 250.000
3. Police – 120.000
National Guard - 60 thousand person.
MIA Ukraine is up to 300.000 employees
4. Ukrainians with combat experience - more than 400.000 people
5. Reservists - 1 million
6. Fit to military service - 6.97 million in age 16-49
7. Territorial defense (in process) - 2 million
8. Ammunition of Ukrainian army according to GFP:
- 2,809 tanks ,
- 8,217 combat armored machines ,
- 1 302 units of self-propelled artillery ,
- 1,669 units of cannon artillery and
- 625 jet systems salvo fire .
9. Aviation .
GFP experts counted:
- 234 combat flying apparatus, including
- 39 fighters and
- 33 attack helicopters
According to others sources on fighters:
- 38 Su -27
- 71 MiG -29
- 17 Su -27
- 140 MiG -29 (on storage)
10. Air defense
- 29 divisions ZRS S - 300 P
- 2 divisions S -300 V,
- 10 divisions SAM " Buk - M1".
- 9 Buk divisions ,
5 divisions AAMS S-300V,
- 9 divisions AAMS S-300 PT ,
- 12 divisions AAMS S-200,
- 20 divisions of SAM S-125 to storage .
Military air defense (available):
- 113 Osa air defense systems ,
- 150 Strela-10
- 24 Tor air defense systems on storage ,
- 600 MANPADS "Igl "
- 400 "Strela-3" on storage
- 90 AAMS "Tunguska "
- 30 self-propelled anti-aircraft guns 23–4 "Shilka"
- 400 anti-aircraft guns S -60 (57 mm )
- 300 anti-aircraft guns -23–2 (23 mm )
- On storage not less than 100 Shilka’s
11. Fleet
- 1 patrol ship project 11351 "Nereus"
- 1 small anti-submarine ship project 1124 P
- 1 medium landing ship project 773
- 1 minesweeper project 1258
- 1 missile boat project 206- MR
- 7 river armored boats project 58150
- 16 patrol boats type Mark VI
- 5 American patrol ships Island
- 1 anti-sabotage boat
- 1 Soviet landing boat
- 2 patrol ships Island
- 10 speed boats Willard
- over 70 inflatables boats Zodiac
12. Soon naval forces will receive:
- not less than 1 corvette project 58250 "Vladimir the Great"
- 1 Medium intelligence ship project "Laguna",
- 8 missile boats class "Barzan ",
- 4 Turkish corvettes class "Ada" project MILGEM ,
- 2 amphibious boats project 58181 "Centaur",
- 1 Island patrol ship
13 . The Armed forces of Ukraine have 337 HMMWV (Humvees)
14. Additionally we received from allies:
- NLAW (anti-tank weapons ) - about 2 thousand pieces
- Javelin - 150 rechargeable launchers installations Javelins and approximately 1200 missiles
- Stinger FIM - 92 (number unknown)
- Carl Gustaf M4 ( anti-tank system ) - quantity unknown
- M 141 BDM - missile installation for defeat fortifications - about 200 pieces
- Bayraktar TB 2 - 10 to 30 drones (number unknown)
- 5 helicopters Mi - 17 V - 5
- Large-caliber sniper rifles Barrett (quantity unknown)
15. and the most interesting .
weapons owned by Ukrainians:
- Officially - about 1 million
- Unaccounted - about 4.5 million units
Honestly, I wouldn’t break in to such a country. - said Anatoliy Amelin.