2004 World's Best Air Forces?

im sorry, but i have to object with the usaf being the best,i think the RAF is the best airforce, the us have no typhoons, #LOADS of friendly fire
(the RAF has none) and generally are too full of themselves

Still, USAF is on top of the list

The VVS is number two probably.

the uk as the best pilots there is from ww2 to now thay won the germans and was out numberd in battle of britian 4-1 and won and even now were the only nation to do close ground training most nations do it but not as close as uk

you lot definitely have it down..but i'd like to add that during WWII canada was the world's largest training ground for allied pilots and today contributes substantially to NORAD, the worlds largest and arguable most capable air defense command in the world. the last time i visited canada, a friend took me up to trenton airforce base where us and canadian aerobatics teams were practicing...quite the spectacle!! they were also a majot contributor to the gulf war

EDIT:

Video already posted here

www.abovetopsecret.com...

[edit on 6-11-2008 by chinawhite]

Originally posted by Anonymous ATS
you lot definitely have it down..but i'd like to add that during WWII canada was the world's largest training ground for allied pilots and today contributes substantially to NORAD, the worlds largest and arguable most capable air defense command in the world. the last time i visited canada, a friend took me up to trenton airforce base where us and canadian aerobatics teams were practicing...quite the spectacle!! they were also a majot contributor to the gulf war

but the problem is that Canada only has maybe not even 20 fly-able fighters in the whole air force...

reply to post by warset


Who told you that? Seriously. Who did?

Canada has about 120 F-18s, of which, about 80 operational.

[edit on 10/11/2008 by C0bzz]

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i seriously doubt that canada can actually manage to put all 80 jets into air at once...

anyways, my point is that canada's air force sucks..

if in case a country does invade canada (even though thats geographically impossible),

we'll
1) either all run to the states,
2) or to have the states army coming over to help,
3) or to just surrender if the states dont care..

i seriously doubt that canada can actually manage to put all 80 jets into air at once...

Planned allocation is two operational squadrons of 24 aircraft each, with the remaining 33 available for training, testing and evaluation AETE, and depot level maintenance.
Operational readiness: Of the 48 aircraft in operational squadrons, 34 (70%) are normally mission-ready on a daily basis.

en.wikipedia.org...

If they needed more aircraft during crisis, then there is no reason they couldn't make the training squadrons operational, and pour extra recources into making the other aircraft mission ready - that's what they do in deployments. Besides, why is Canada, or ANY, airforce going to need all aircraft in the air at once?

anyways, my point is that canada's air force sucks..

Not really.

if in case a country does invade canada (even though thats geographically impossible),

we'll
1) either all run to the states,
2) or to have the states army coming over to help,
3) or to just surrender if the states dont care..

And why exactly are you going to spend billions of dollars on an airforce if invasion is 'geographically impossible'? Perhaps if you were team America, World Police, but not Canada...

[edit on 10/11/2008 by C0bzz]

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Israel has the best Air Force you dumb ass, not United States,israelies are more hardcore combat trained,they deffended their homeland from three neighbouring countries that invaded Iserael(Egypt;Jorden;Iraq) on the 6 day war than US or any other Air Force.United States Navy is for sure is the largest hence more man power.United States Navy is no doubt the largest in the world and most powerfull when it comes to arsenals such as carries(Longest carrier,carrier:USS Nimitz (CVN-68)

i love porn and being #ed in the ear.... oops! wrong post, I mean yeh USAF
UK/France
Russia
India
China
Uzbekistan-you'd be surprised, do some research!

Sweden should be in there somewhere in between 3-6 they have some of the worlds most potent fighters. I know what you're thinking but fighters such as the Saab Gripen are at the cutting edge of fighter design. I know I have studied aircraft for years and I was very surprised to learn that Sweden is a player on the world stage of fighter design.

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Indian donot have a good training base and a very high crash rate (highest in the world)

Hello
it is a very interesting topic.
Ithink USAF is on number 1.
1) US
2) UK
3) Russia
4) France
5) China
6) Isreal
7) Australia
8)Sweden
9)Italy
10)Pakistan
I thaink pakistan Air Force(PAF) is on Number 10.It is a highly Professional Air force. The Quality of Pakistan Air Foce pilots and Training is Superb.

I will place the list as follows>

USA
Russia
Uk
China
Israel
France
Germany
Pakistan
India
Japan

paksitan airforce is no.1 coz pakistani pilots having guts to destry 5 enemy aircraft within a minute

1. India (since they beat USAF in 2004 war game and have excellent LCA and Sukhios and extremely high quantity)

2. USA (since they got beaten by IAF in 2004 war game and awsome F22 raptor etc.)

3.Russia (Cuz of their quantity)

4. Israel (excelent experienced pilots and average size)

5. Japan (Awesome planes, bad quantity, well trained)

6. China (pretty good J-F's, well trained and excellent quantity)

7. France (excellent mirage planes.. lacks in quantity)

8. Germany (extremely close to France due to lack of experience)

9. Canada (Average size and extremly well trained pilots)

10. England or UK (low quantity, average trained, and not so well engineered planes)

can anyone check or to say something about the greek pilots???

Do you know about air figths in agean sea??

Do you know or has anyone hear about air fights above greek islands??

These people taking part in airfights with turks at least 20 years , 12 months a year , 7 days a week ... with many dead hero pilots all thses years....

and you are speaking for pilots which are only for demonstrations??

Originally posted by Anonymous ATS
1. India (since they beat USAF in 2004 war game and have excellent LCA and Sukhios and extremely high quantity)

2. USA (since they got beaten by IAF in 2004 war game and awsome F22 raptor etc.)

3.Russia (Cuz of their quantity)

4. Israel (excelent experienced pilots and average size)

10. England or UK (low quantity, average trained, and not so well engineered planes)

I must disagree. The UK airforce has been in constant service for two decades and their aircraft do the job required and do it well. The Israeli airforce's experience is over-rated IMHO. India as number one? Russia as number three - they may have quantity but how many can actually fly?

Regards

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