Power projection of Middle East states in the Horn of Africa: linking security burdens with capabilities

Figures & data

Table 1. A comparison of the commonly used military strength indicators/equipment: UAE and Turkey.

Country	UAE		Turkey
Army
Main Battle Tanks (MBT)	383		2,379
Air Force
Fighter (FTR) and Fighter/Ground Attack (FGA) aircraft	137		310
Navy
Total Naval Vessels	67		158
Principal Surface Combatants (PSC)	1		20
Submarines – Tactical	0		12
Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAV)
	- Wing Loong I	15	- Bayraktar Mini	200+
	- Wing Loong II	25	- Bayraktar TB2	86
	- MQ-9B	15–18	- Serçe-1.	500+
	- RQ-1E Predator XP	10+	- Anka S	16–22
			- Heron 1	7

By ‘commonly used’ we mean figures for tanks, fighter aircraft etc. that give a snapshot or form indicators of a state’s military strength. Numbers sourced and aggregated from. IISS, Military Balance 2020, 153–156; 381–383. For UAV numbers sourced and aggregated from Gettinger, The Drone Databook 2019.

Table 2. First and second tier security burdens: Turkey and the UAE.

State	First tier security burdens (external states)	Second tier security burdens (external states)
Turkey	Russia	European states (in combination) and/or the USA, particularly when allied – in theory or in practice – with ‘internal agents’ such as Kurdish separatist groups
UAE	Iran	Groups or states associated with political Islam, e.g. Muslim Brotherhood, Turkey, Qatar