Ok, slightly click bait title. It's not so great. But it did officially rank at no. 6 in 1989 as the largest military naval force. Not bad considering it didn't belong to a country but a private corporation!
And you would never guess what that company was..
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Pepsi! Yes, fucking Pepsi!
But how the fuck did that happen?
Well, back in 1989, Pepsi closed a deal with the Soviet Union to provide them with a significant amount of Pepsi colas and a few pizza hat spots in return for naval vessels, 17 submarinws and 3 warships to be exact.
Which momentarily granted the company with enough military hardware to make them the 6th largest navy in the world, in tie with India.
Well, that only on paper of course as the ships were old and in terrible condition..A far cry of their golden war years.
The Pepsi military naval was very brief as the ships were soon scraped for sweet $$.
The deal was a win win. A big win for PepsiCo as it allowed them company to infiltrate a new market in the Soviet Union. And a win
for mother Russia as it had great economic difficulties and got the goods for useless military equipment.
Tldr, a great forbidden love between the great communist nation and one of the biggest capitalist entities.
There's a lot more backstory and important details I skipped on this odd deal, here's a link if you want to learn more on it :)
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