The last conflict between Iran and Israel It has been fortunately brief and has had a relatively low cost in lives and greater in media, which mainly affects the capacity of the Islamic Republic that has been militarily crushed by the Israeli army with the help of the United States. Although Israel’s military capacity is well known, Iran also counts or had an army that this year, according to the annual report Global Firepower IndexI placed him as the Sixth military power of the world, just before Spain and after Israel.
GlobalFirepower is an index that classifies the military powers of the world from 2005based on information from open and publicly available sources such as governments, international organizations, agencies such as CIA and media. Every January is updated and, to know how Iran have affected the 12 -day war in its classification, we will have to wait until then. What we can estimate, based on official sources and media information, is To what extent their military personnel and media have decreased.
During the 12 days of the conflict, Israel has exhibited an impressive control of its airspace and, more important, that of Iran. Their losses have been minimal, so this conflict will not affect its position on the index, which is based mainly on the numbers that each army offers. We review the current situation, after the conflict.
Military personnel
Starting from Iran has a population of 88 million of people and Israel of something more than 9it is evident which nation has the advantage here. The Iran Armed Forces They are among the largest in the Middle East, with 610,000 active duty and about 350,000 trained reservistsdivided between the army of Iran and the body of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard. The figures of the Israel Defense ForcesFDI, place the number of active military in 170,000. Some 465,000 They are in reserve, 115,000 more that will go.
The 12 -day war has been mainly an air conflict in which the casualties have been scarce, taking into account that we talk about a war between 2 of the 20 greatest military powers. Iran’s official figures speak of 610 civilians Deaths in Israel’s attacks, not to mention the number of military casualties. The Human Rights Activists News AgencyHrana, a Washington -based group that monitors Iran, estimated on June 24 Some 974 dead people, of which 268 would correspond to military and the rest to civilians. Israelmeanwhile, has reported the death of 28 peoplemainly civil. They are figures that, in any case, do not significantly alter the resources of each nation in this regard.
Nuclear weapons
Israel has nuclear weapons since the 60s, although it has never been very clear about the details. The NTI, initial in English of initiative against nuclear threat, estimates in 90 The number of nuclear eyelaces in Israel and that has sufficient nuclear material to manufacture up to 300. They will go, however, has no nuclear weapons And avoiding it has been the reason that the conflict began, whose main objective were its nuclear facilities.
Missiles
What Iran could presume is from his missile arsenal. According to him International Institute for Strategic StudiesIran had before the conflict of one of the biggest bellistic missile and Drones of Western Asia. This includes cruise missiles and anti -bual missiles, as well as ballistic and hypersonic missiles with a range of up to 2,000 kilometers that can reach anywhere in Israel. Analysts claimed that the nation has the short and medium -sized missile system in the region, but Israel, which has defensive systems Iron dome, David Honda and Arrow To oppose them, he has demonstrated in this war their low effectiveness against their defenses. More than 90 % of the missiles launched by Iran were intercepted.
In addition to intercepted missiles, Israel has destroyed more than 1,000 ballistic missiles in its bases or warehouses before being fired. IDF ensure that they have eliminated around 250 Iranian ballistic missile launchers during their bombings. GFP figure in 1.517 Multiple rocket launchers and MLRS missiles, which are not limited to ballistics, in front of the 183 from Israel. Therefore, Iran’s current figure would be around 1,267 After 12 days of war. Israel has had no losses in this aspect.
Terrestrial, Air and Naval Power
As for the terrestrial and aerial power, Iran often has numbers in its favor, while Israel technology. For example, Iran has more tanks than Israel: The fleet of the first is 1,713 in front of the 1,300 of the second, a difference of 413, according to the GPF ranking.
But, although Tehran’s tanks are many more, they are mostly old models that cannot be put at the same level as the most advanced as the Merkavathe preferred battle tank of the IDF.
Iran also exceeds 29,840 armored vehicles To Israel, with approximately 65,825 and 35,985 respectively. It also happens with the towed artillery, 2,070 Units against 171but not with the self -propelled, 392 Iran in front of 352 from Israel. In any case, neither the attacks of Iran nor those of Israel have directed against these types of objectives, so the resources of both nations with these types of terrestrial armaments They are the same as before the war.
If we talk about the Air Forcethe situation is different and there are casualties to count on the part of Iran. Before the conflict, the 551 Iran aircraft were behind the 611 with those that Israel counts. As with the tanks, Israel’s airplanes are more advanced than Iran’s and include combat fighters such as F-15, F-16 and F-35. In number of combat fighters, Israel has 240 in front of the 188 From Iran.
2 F – 14 Operational and 3 Non -operational Tomcats were destroyed on land for Israeli attacks. Also 1 kc -707-3J9C cistern plane and 8 AH -1J Apache helicopters. This reduces Iran’s air fleet 183 Combat aircraft (in front of 240 from Israel), 5 cistern aircraft (Israel, 14) and 5 Combat helicopters (Israel, 48).
The IDF, meanwhile, made more than 1,000 combat missions without Iran managing to knock down any of their fighters. However, Iran said otherwise and said that 5 Israeli F -35 aircraft folded, something that has not been corroborated by any other sourceso they are not included in the numbers of the previous paragraph.
As for the Naval Force, neither of the two countries has too much presence. Iran’s fleet is 107 vessels compared to 62 from Israel and has 25 submarines compared to alone 5 of the latter. In any case, naval forces have not been objective in this conflict and no variations have occurred.
Together with missile and combat aircraft releases, the prominence in this war has been Antialeous Defense Systems. Israeli forces indicate that they managed to neutralize most of Iran’s anti -aircraft defenses, destroying more than 80 Iranian air defense batteries (Earth-Aire missile systems, radars, etc.) throughout the campaign. This allowed them to obtain aerial superiority over western Iran and Tehran.
Israel’s aerial defense worked with the usual efficacy. Defensive batteries intercepted most threats and There are no reports of Israeli anti -aircraft systems destroyed by Iranian fire.
Drones
With all the prominence they have acquired since the Ukraine War, unmanned systems do not have a breakdown in GFP reports. But, of course, they have also been widely used in this conflict.
According to Times of Israel, Iran launched around 1,000 drones during the war, of which the vast majority were Disabled by Israeli defenses and none of them achieved important objectives. Israel has confirmed that he lost at least 2 drones military because of Iranian defenses.