Asia Power Index
2025 Edition
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Land warfare: Firepower
Proxy: Attack helicopters, used in close air support for ground troops (2025)
This chart shows the distribution of countries based on their weighted score for land warfare: firepower.
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Land warfare: Firepower
Proxy: Attack helicopters, used in close air support for ground troops (2025)
Rankings
Indicators
rank
score
trend
Country / Territory
Year
2018
2019
2020
2021
2023
2024
2025
Weighting × 1
Source
Year
1
94.9
United States
888
*
2025
2
36.4
Russia
341
*
2025
3
35.0
—
China
328
*
2025
4
9.7
South Korea
91
*
2025
5
−1
9.6
Taiwan
90
*
2025
6
9.0
Japan
84
*
2025
7
5.2
—
India
49
*
2025
8
4.5
—
Pakistan
42
*
2025
9
2.4
—
Australia
22
*
2025
10
2.0
—
Singapore
19
*
2025
11
1.5
—
Indonesia
14
*
2025
12
1.2
—
Myanmar
11
*
2025
13
+2
0.9
—
Philippines
8
*
2025
14
0.7
—
Thailand
7
*
2025
15
−3
0.6
Sri Lanka
6
*
2025
16
+11
0.2
—
Mongolia
2
*
2025
27
0.0
—
Bangladesh
—
2025
27
0.0
—
Brunei
—
2025
27
0.0
—
Cambodia
—
2025
27
0.0
—
Laos
—
2025
27
0.0
—
Malaysia
—
2025
27
0.0
—
Nepal
—
2025
27
0.0
—
New Zealand
—
2025
27
0.0
—
North Korea
—
2025
27
0.0
—
Papua New Guinea
—
2025
27
0.0
—
Timor-Leste
—
2025
27
0.0
—
Vietnam
—
2025
Indicators
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Military capability
Defence spending
Armed forces
Weapons and platforms
Land warfare: Manoeuvre
Land warfare: Firepower
Maritime warfare: Sea control
Maritime warfare: Firepower
Maritime warfare: Sea denial
Air warfare: Fighters
Air warfare: Enablers
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Signature capabilities
Asian military posture
Resilience
Future resources
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