Defense World’s Global Armed Forces Database (GAFD) is a research and reference world defence almanac designed to provide instant access to data about armed forces’ all over the world such as forces structure, equipment in use, defense budgets and details of personnel strength.
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Global Armed Forces Database (GAFD) Snapshots
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Unique Advantages:
- Get data on defense budgets of a country or make comparisons between budgets of various countries. Make real-time economic analysis of allocations and extract the results as a graphical display.
- Find out how many pieces of a certain equipment or hardware exist in countries around the world. Get results as per force- i.e., army, navy, air force, marines, etc.
- Get the latest information on acquisitions in relation to a specific defense force, equipment or project.
- See how the military forces of different countries are organized. Select a country or countries to display their respective forces structure. Get the most current information on changes to forces structure.
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How is GAFD different?
GAFD is based on RoboeditorTM, an advanced dataming and relational database management technology developed by Defense World. RoboeditorTM continuously crawls the internet looking for information relating to equipment, armed forces’ order of battle, acquisitions, budgets and many other parameters, which it then places into relevant databases. These databases are integrated by a powerful relational database management system enabling you to track equipment inventories and other details of armed forces all around the world.
What sets GAFD apart is its ability to find sources of relevant information on-the-fly and link them in a seamless manner to provide easy cross-referencing. Thus, customized comparisons, selective totaling and country and regional military balance can be easily viewed. Reports are generated in a tabular manner providing for easy assimilation into your own reports and presentations.
Once the data is obtained and placed into relevant databases by RoboeditorTM, it is compared with offline sources whose data is fed into our database. As there could be several versions of a particular inventory number we rely on the RoboeditorTM algorithm to arrive at the final number. This algorithm has been designed to give maximum importance to a direct source (such as a company press release or information given out by an MoD). The order of relevance drops depending upon the information source’s fidelity.
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The inventory of a particular equipment as mentioned in the GAFD is different from what I read in an yearly publication of a leading defense publisher. Which one is correct?
Our data gathering and analysis is software driven with an algorithm working out the equipment inventory and other numbers. In cases where the information is clear (such as a company press release or an MoD announcement of equipment purchase), the GAFD is certainly more relevant than print publications. However in cases where there is no direct information, RoboeditorTM arrives at a mean average. Some governments give out order of battle figures while some others do not part with such information. Therefore, any publication, including GAFD is severely hindered in its effort to report equipment numbers of nations which do not make public their order of battle. Where other publications make intelligent guesses, GAFD has devised an algorithm to arrive at insightful aggregations of the numbers. |
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