February 16, 2005 at 3:52 pm
How many fighter aircraft is needed to protect your national territory?
Divide the area of a country by its number of fighting aircraft. You get how many km2 per fighter aircraft.
Australia has approx. 1 fighting acft per 48000km2
Turkey 1″ 2550 km2
Germany 1 ” 1238 km2
Denmark 1 ” 695 km2
Greece 1 ” 448 km2
Switzerland 1 ” 344 km2
Israel 1 fighter per 72 km2
Singapore beats them all with 1 fighting acft per 4,4 km2
some off course have none:
New Zealand
maybe it is irrelevant, but nevertheless interesting
who is highest and who is lowest