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5. North Korea

Number of combat aircraft: 527

While nobody outside a three-letter agency can be quite sure in what state the North Korean Air Force that ranks 5th in our list of largest air forces in the world, really is, a number of active aircraft can be guestimated fairly accurately. A vast majority of their fleet consists of Chinese-made F-5s, F-6s, F-7s, and H-5 aircraft, with less than a hundred Soviet-era MiG-21s and MiG-23s.

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