Turkey, Egypt and KSA have stronger militaries than Pakistan.
All three of those countries can fight a conventional war based off of the western playbook to the letter. Pakistan can't do that.
Turkish military is strong. Correct. Stronger than Pakistan? I doubt it, yes maybe in some areas. The size of Pakistan military is gigantic.
Egypt ?? No way on earth.
you are completely wrong about Egypt. and irony is you are comparing em with Pakistan? !!
Egypt has everything supplied by West. Let's see how Egypt will perform against any western power or Israel.
- Air power: Egyptian airforce do not pose even a slightest threat to any capable airforce of west or israel. Severely lacks long range BVRs. Huge F-16 fleet is completely toothless without AMRAAMs. Rafales without Meteors (PAF even destroyed Rafales that had meteors). Modern airforces have BVRs 2 or 3 times the range of Egyptian a2a missiles. Egypt airforce stand no chance. While Pakistan
demonstrated JUST a while ago by shooting
best of the
WESTERN aircrafts that had
BEST of the western missiles.
- Ballistic missies: Egypt has any ?? - Pakistan is a gangster in that domain. That's your strike capability. Egypt has none.
- Antiship missiles: All egypt has are those competely useless western supplied legacy subsonic Harpoons & Exocets. they sell only those weapons for which they have full control over & defense against. These missiles are easily interceptable. Pakistan has supersonic CM-series missiles, much longer ranges and much higher speeds. Plus Pakisan building P-282.
- Missiles in general (SSMs or ASM / ALCMs etc) . Egypt lacks any indigenous industry or capability to develop missiles of its own. These missiles are the strike element of your military. If you don't have huge inventory or even capability to build those or a reliable supplier which can give you cutting edge / supersonic / hypersonic then you are not a powerful military by any means. Stand off munitions is the key. Pakistan has whole range of in-house missile systems from KRL, NESCOM, AWC etc. Then chinese supplied missiles are way better then sluggish, legacy western missiles that they "allow" to sell.
So, Egypt is a strong military only against a military of 1980s or against a military that is not modern at all. Egypt is strong against Libya, Somalia etc. They lack serious offensive capabilities. All their systems are sitting ducks without long range missiles in all domains air to air, surface to surface, air to surface. they do not have at par capabilities with any other modern conventional military.
Pakistan is way strong even if we put nukes aside. There are many other factors, like trainings, real combat experience, multi-domain operations, terrain of the country, size of the military, in everything Pakistan scores much higher.
