Country profile 路 public, aggregate figures
South Africa
South Africa fields 69,200 active soldiers and 15,050 reservists, with 157 tanks and 26 combat aircraft. It shares a land border with 6 countries. Below is how the model plays out a war on each of those borders.
South Africa in numbers
Active soldiers
69,200
Reservists
15,050
Tanks
157
Armoured vehicles
812est.
Artillery
484est.
Combat aircraft
26
Helicopters
48est.
Defence budget
$3.0bn
GDP
$427bn
Population
64.8m
From free public sources: Wikipedia's country lists (citing the IISS Military Balance), the CIA World Factbook and the World Bank. Figures marked est. have no free source and are model estimates; every value's source is on the data sources page. Not operational information.
Neighbours
Build your own scenario with South Africa
Pick who it fights, who joins in, the season and how much of the reserve is called up, then watch the front move day by day.
Model-generated simulation on public, country-level data. Not a prediction. No operational, classified or real-time information is used.