So whats your point?
but in the end, Kazakhstan is not Ukraine.
Ukraine has a much bigger population
Ukraine has a much much bigger air force, more MiG-29s than almost all the combat aircraft in Kazakhstan combined.
the budget Ukraine has (over all for their military) is larger, but the proportion/ratio is smaller, so the budget is more stretched.
Ukraine GDP = $356 billion, military expenditure 1.4% of GDP (2005)
KZ GDP = $139 billion, military expenditure 1.5% of GDP (2006)
so while Ukraine has about 2.6x a bigger military budget, Ukraine’s airforce, army, etc are much much more than 2.6x KZ’s armed forces. for example,
Ukraine probably has about 200 Fulcrums, and KZ has about 40. more than twice the number of Flankers, etc.. and their army is much larger, and their navy far far larger.
as for the MiG-31, there are more pics of it if you look in the small air forces section. They are based in Semey not too far from the Chinese border.
Nice calculations but what is your point :confused: about the flighthours??
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