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The Countries With The Largest Tank Fleets

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The Countries With The Largest Tank Fleets

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On Wednesday, the Biden Administration announced it would be sending a batch of M1 Abrams tanks to Ukraine, an announcement accompanying Germany’s plan to send two battalions of similarly high-tech Leopard 2 tanks to the war-torn nation. These two tank types are widely considered to be among the most advanced of their kind in the world. While the Abrams and Leopards were developed for the American and German armed forces, respectfully, they each can be found in arsenals of other nations as well. 

Tanks, and the ability to attack them, have been a major part of the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Russia has been famous for its tank tactics. So far, these have not been on display successfully in Ukraine. Using weapons provided by the U.S. and other NATO nations, the Ukrainian military has destroyed as many as 200 Russian tanks and other armored vehicles. Most of the Russian tanks are T-72s, which were first developed in the 1970s.

The ease with which Ukraine’s armed forces have destroyed Russian tanks has brought into question how effective the thousands of tanks operated by well over a dozen countries would do in similar wars. (Still, the U.S. spent $1.4 billion upgrading and modifying its M-1 Abrams tanks. But this is the weapon the U.S. military spends the most money on.)

According to Global Firepower, there are 63 countries have over 200 tanks each. To find the country with the most tanks, 24/7 Wall St. reviewed Global Firepower’s Tank Strength by Country (2022).

Interestingly, the country with the largest military is not among those with the most tanks. 24/7 Wall St. research shows that India has the largest army with 3,045,000 personnel and a budget of $72.9 billion. (These are the countries with the largest militaries.)

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50. Kazakhstan
> Number of tanks: 310

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49. Indonesia
> Number of tanks: 314

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48. Bosnia and Herzegovina
> Number of tanks: 320

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47. Bangladesh
> Number of tanks: 320

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46. Angola
> Number of tanks: 320

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45. Serbia
> Number of tanks: 323

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44. Spain
> Number of tanks: 327

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43. Ethiopia
> Number of tanks: 340

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42. Argentina
> Number of tanks: 349

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41. United Arab Emirates
> Number of tanks: 354

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40. Sudan
> Number of tanks: 360

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39. Lebanon
> Number of tanks: 361

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38. Kuwait
> Number of tanks: 367

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37. Nigeria
> Number of tanks: 376

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36. France
> Number of tanks: 406

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35. Bulgaria
> Number of tanks: 410

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34. Uzbekistan
> Number of tanks: 420

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33. Brazil
> Number of tanks: 439

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32. Romania
> Number of tanks: 451

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31. Mongolia
> Number of tanks: 470

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30. Azerbaijan
> Number of tanks: 510

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29. Cambodia
> Number of tanks: 539

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28. Belarus
> Number of tanks: 601

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27. Thailand
> Number of tanks: 637

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26. Myanmar
> Number of tanks: 664

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25. Turkmenistan
> Number of tanks: 680

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24. Iraq
> Number of tanks: 826

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23. Poland
> Number of tanks: 863

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22. Japan
> Number of tanks: 1,004

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21. Saudi Arabia
> Number of tanks: 1,062

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20. Taiwan
> Number of tanks: 1,110

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19. Cuba
> Number of tanks: 1,230

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18. Greece
> Number of tanks: 1,243

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17. Jordan
> Number of tanks: 1,401

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16. Israel
> Number of tanks: 1,900

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15. Vietnam
> Number of tanks: 2,044

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14. Algeria
> Number of tanks: 2,196

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13. Ukraine
> Number of tanks: 2,596

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12. South Korea
> Number of tanks: 2,624

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11. Pakistan
> Number of tanks: 2,824

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10. Iran
> Number of tanks: 2,831

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9. Turkey
> Number of tanks: 3,022

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8. Morocco
> Number of tanks: 3,335

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7. Syria
> Number of tanks: 3,540

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6. Egypt
> Number of tanks: 4,394

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5. India
> Number of tanks: 4,614

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4. China
> Number of tanks: 5,250

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3. North Korea
> Number of tanks: 5,895

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2. United States
> Number of tanks: 6,612

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1. Russia
> Number of tanks: 12,420

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About the Author Douglas A. McIntyre →

Douglas A. McIntyre is the co-founder, chief executive officer and editor in chief of 24/7 Wall St. and 24/7 Tempo. He has held these jobs since 2006.

McIntyre has written thousands of articles for 24/7 Wall St. He is an expert on corporate finance, the automotive industry, media companies and international finance. He has edited articles on national demographics, sports, personal income and travel.

His work has been quoted or mentioned in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Los Angeles Times, The Washington Post, NBC News, Time, The New Yorker, HuffPost USA Today, Business Insider, Yahoo, AOL, MarketWatch, The Atlantic, Bloomberg, New York Post, Chicago Tribune, Forbes, The Guardian and many other major publications. McIntyre has been a guest on CNBC, the BBC and television and radio stations across the country.

A magna cum laude graduate of Harvard College, McIntyre also was president of The Harvard Advocate. Founded in 1866, the Advocate is the oldest college publication in the United States.

TheStreet.com, Comps.com and Edgar Online are some of the public companies for which McIntyre served on the board of directors. He was a Vicinity Corporation board member when the company was sold to Microsoft in 2002. He served on the audit committees of some of these companies.

McIntyre has been the CEO of FutureSource, a provider of trading terminals and news to commodities and futures traders. He was president of Switchboard, the online phone directory company. He served as chairman and CEO of On2 Technologies, the video compression company that provided video compression software for Adobe’s Flash. Google bought On2 in 2009.

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