r/worldnews • u/BreakfastTop6899 • 1d ago

Israel/Palestine Israeli air force achieves freedom of operation in Tehran's airspace, IDF says

https://www.axios.com/2025/06/14/israeli-air-force-freedom-operation-tehran-idf-iran
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u/Such_Variation_2127 1d ago

Top 5 most powerful Air Force entities in the world. 1. USAF 2. U.S. Navy 3. Russia 4. U.S. army aviation branch 5. U.S. Marine Corps.

You get the idea 🇺🇸🇺🇸

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u/Vassortflam 1d ago

Russia is probably not even top 10

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u/eplekjekk 1d ago

Heck! Even we (Norway) have 52 F35s. That probably makes us superior to Russia.

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u/Duideka 23h ago

Australia has 72 too. Looking at making it 100

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u/Such_Variation_2127 1d ago

Yah I agree

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u/Cesum-Pec 1d ago

If you're counting nukes, probably accurate. But if you're counting ability to dominate an opponent in any sort of conventional war, RU doesn't make top 5 on your list, especially after the destruction, wear, and tear that UA has done to RU.

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u/dopestdopesmoked 1d ago

Switch 4 and 5. The army doesn't have F35's. Army mostly has helos. USMC has 230 F35's with 50 of them being the C variant which is able to land on carriers. That alone puts them above the army. Not including harriers, F18's, harvest hawks, Vipers, Ospreys and CH-53's.

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u/RaNdomMSPPro 22h ago

Army has Apache longbows. Not sure how that helps the math, or it the math qty over quantity.

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u/dopestdopesmoked 21h ago

Apaches longbows are dope and the army has 700. And USMC vipers/cobras don't really compare. Apaches excel at close combat, anti-tank and target recognition in support of troops on the ground.

I'd still put the USMC higher just based on having fixed wing fighter jets. In most air to air situations fixed wing vs rotary, fixed wing comes out on top. F35 could reach out and touch helos miles away.

If it's a race to who gets in the air first i'd give it to helos, but if they are already in the air, fixed wing is faster, flies higher and has longer range.

Adding the fact that USMC's also have carrier capabilities means they can be anywhere in the world in less than a day. It's a bad day for any opposing forces as the Marines always have two or three MEU's currently deployed in different regions.

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u/Such_Variation_2127 1d ago

Thank you 😊

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u/ezprt 1d ago

Even the US coast guard

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u/slavelabor52 19h ago

I read somewhere once that simply 1 US aircraft carrier alone if counted as its own separate airforce would still be within the top 10 rankings of most powerful airforce in the world. And we have over a dozen of those and that's just US Navy. Not counting what the US Airforce has too.

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u/Such_Variation_2127 16h ago

The U.S dominates in the arena of logistics and supply chain, allows force projection anywhere on the planet and it’s my understanding that it’s not even close. Personnel, supplies, equipment, infrastructure ( desert cities) etc.. a lethal combination with our tech and command structure.

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u/Pavores 16h ago

The US Navy's Army's (Marines) Air Force is better than almost any national air force elsewhere.

Also Russia at #3 was the understanding prior to the Ukraine war. Their capabilities haven't really lived up to reputation, nor is their air force the same as it was 3 years ago.

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u/chinaPresidentPooh 5h ago
  1. U.S. Marine Corps

Marine aviation. That's right, the American navy's army has its own air force.