Gear Compared: USA vs PAKISTAN Soldier

Two infantrymen, the same year, two very different armies. One carries the gear of the biggest military budget on Earth. The other carries German rifles built under licence, Chinese missiles, a few American weapons from an old alliance, and more and more equipment made at home. Item by item, we compare what an American rifleman and a Pakistani soldier take into the field in 2026: rifles, optics, grenade launchers, machine guns, pistols, marksman rifles, anti-tank weapons, helmets, body armor, the load, night vision, first aid, uniforms, the cold of the Siachen Glacier, rations, drones, training and special forces. 0:00 Intro 1:26 The Rifle 3:06 The Sight 3:48 The Grenade Launcher 4:45 The Machine Gun 5:29 The Pistol 6:09 The Marksman 6:59 Against Armor 8:21 The Helmet 8:45 Body Armor 9:12 The Load 10:02 Night Vision 10:42 First Aid 11:20 The Uniform 11:58 The Cold 13:15 The Ration 13:48 The Drone 14:32 Training 15:16 Special Forces 15:53 The Balance Figures are approximate published values. Footage: U.S. Department of Defense / DVIDS (public domain). The appearance of U.S. Department of Defense visual information does not imply or constitute DoD endorsement. Additional images via Wikimedia Commons: Karakoram Glaciers — Imtiyaz Ali, CC BY-SA 3.0 Heckler & Koch G3 Kunststoffschaft Display noBG — Harald Hansen, CC BY-SA 4.0 Type 56 mod02 noBG — ATF / User:RRT877, CC BY-SA 4.0 CZ BREN 2 — Land68, CC0 GP-25 at Tula State Museum of Weapons — Vitaly V. Kuzmin, CC BY-SA 4.0 MG3 machine gun in Pakistan Army Museum — Ahmed Bin Mazhar, CC BY-SA 3.0 BWEHR Maschinengewehr MG3 (cropped) — Rüdiger Müller, CC BY-SA 4.0 Barrett MRAD — Barrett Firearms Company / User:MathKnight, CC BY-SA 4.0 IFAK — Bahamut0013, CC BY-SA 3.0 Siachen glacier, Siachen glacier 4 — Sadia17301, CC BY-SA 4.0 2012 Siachen Glacier avalanche — TripWire, CC BY-SA 4.0 GIDS Shahpar — Hezmok Media, CC BY-SA 4.0 Pakistan military helicopter — Al Jazeera English, CC BY-SA 2.0 Special Service Group monument — Hbtila, CC BY-SA 3.0 Clearance operations in Mirali, North Waziristan — Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR) Pakistan army in Kargil — Pakistan Army, CC0 Public domain: U.S. Army PEO Soldier, Natick Soldier Systems Center, ATF, Rpg-7, BaktarShikan3, MSG 90, ACU UCP swatch, Waziristan map (T. P. Bejnar) Some images are cropped or have the background removed. #USAvsPakistan #PakistanArmy #GearCompared