An interactive atlas of military equipment by country, made for the Army Encyclopedia YouTube channel. Pick a country and its equipment stands in formation: one marker per type, with the quantity, branch, photo gallery and notes. Pick a category with no country selected to see every type of it in the world and the countries that operate each one. VS compares two countries category by category; My Army lets you build your own force from the same catalog, arrange it (drag any marker where you like — new equipment still lines up by itself) and share it by link. Any country or a drawn outline can be its territory, and «Check army» grades its structure.
Analysis (the tab next to Equipment, and a page for every documented country) reads the same inventories the way an analyst would: force structure, manning and readiness, budget realism, fleet age, reach and air-defence coverage, a transparent strength index and the country's standing among the documented armies. Live War runs an attrition model between the two sides of a VS comparison — Day 1 … Day N with the tempo, scenario, supply and ammunition you set; every figure opens a «why» window with its formula, and the result is what remains on each side, never a winner. It is a model on open inventories, not a forecast: the method, the norms and the limits are on the Method page ↗.
▶ Presentation plays an automatic show of a country's equipment, of a VS comparison or of your own army for recording a video — Simple or Cinematic, by group or category, in 16:9 or 9:16 — with chapters and subtitles for the export. The interface, the cards and the pages are available in 8 languages (the language button in the header); equipment names stay in their original form.
Inventories are compiled by Army Encyclopedia from open sources — national lists of equipment (Wikipedia and official / press sources), the IISS Military Balance (active personnel, used for the country ranking) and the SIPRI Yearbook (nuclear forces). Where a figure has a recorded source it is shown at the bottom of the card. Numbers are approximate by nature: sources disagree, fleets change, and quantities marked + or — are lower bounds or unknown. Marker positions are notional — they show that a country operates a type, not where it is based. Data version: .
Photographs come from open sources and belong to their authors; they are shown for identification of the equipment type. Basemaps: Esri World Imagery and World Shaded Relief; country outlines: Natural Earth (public domain); map engine: Leaflet.
Every country, category and equipment type also has its own page with the full list, description, unit price and operators: all countries, categories and equipment types.
Austria · Azerbaijan · Belgium · Canada · China · Czechia · Egypt · France · Germany · Iran · Israel · Lebanon · Malta · Moldova · Montenegro · Morocco · Netherlands · Norway · Oman · Russia · Sudan · Ukraine · United Arab Emirates · United Kingdom · United States
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