American website Insider Monkey, which specializes in rankings, revealed a new list based on data collected from the 2024 Global Firepower Index report and the WIPO Global Innovation Index for the same year, in which it placed the Moroccan Royal Armed Forces among the most powerful regular armies in the world in terms of artillery power, as the Moroccan army ranked twentieth in the world.
The Moroccan army received a score of 0.393 in the evaluation of the aforementioned website, which indicated that the total number of artillery units owned by the Moroccan armed forces is 1,079 units, explains the ranking, adding: “The Moroccan military arsenal includes 565 self-propelled guns, 306 towed guns and more than 200 rocket launchers, Washington agreed last April to sell artillery missile systems to the Kingdom in a deal worth USD 524 million.”
The Moroccan army was the only army included in the list for the Maghreb region, the second in North Africa, and the third in the Arab region.
The Insider Monkey ranking also included the Egyptian army, which ranked fourteenth in the world with a total of more than 4,160 artillery units with a score of 0.422, in addition to the Royal Saudi Armed Forces, which ranked sixth with a score of 0.445.
In the Middle East, the list included Iran, which ranked tenth in the world, followed by Israel, which ranked eighth in the world in terms of the strength of its artillery, followed by Turkey, which ranked seventh after obtaining 0.441 points in the evaluation of the American site that developed the ranking.
Unexpectedly always at the top of the US-dominated military rankings, South Korea came in first globally, with a total of more than 8,630 artillery units and a score of 0.488. Insider Monkey noted that with Seoul’s strained relations with its North Korean neighbor, it is “not surprising that South Korea has built up a huge ground force and stockpiled a large amount of war materiel,” with Pyongyang ranking 19th in the rankings.
The Chinese army came second in the world, according to the same ranking, with a total of 8,464 artillery units, followed by the US army, which ranked third in the world in terms of artillery power; the Russian and Indian armies came fourth and fifth, respectively.
The ranking of the specialized website, which also included European countries such as Ukraine, Greece, Poland and Finland, took into account the total number of artillery units that armies have, in addition to the technological capabilities of these weapons, as some countries have fewer but more advanced units, while others have large but old traditional stocks.
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