Germany
Global Firepower rank #12 of 145 路 PowerIndex 0.2463 (lower is stronger)
SIPRI puts Germany's 2025 military spending at $114 billion, 2.3% of GDP and up 24% on the year in real terms, ranking #4 in the world. It has no nuclear weapons of its own.
Alliances: NATO, EU
People and money
- Military spending
- $114B
- Active personnel
- 184K
- Reserves
- 860K
- Paramilitary
- 0
Land forces
- Tanks
- 296
- Armored vehicles
- 87K
- Self-propelled artillery
- 134
- Towed artillery
- 0
- Rocket artillery
- 33
Air power
- Total aircraft
- 569
- Fighters
- 127
- Attack aircraft
- 63
- Helicopters
- 292
- Attack helicopters
- 49
- Tankers
- 3
- Transports
- 55
Naval forces
- Total fleet
- 96
- Aircraft carriers
- 0
- Helicopter carriers
- 0
- Submarines
- 6
- Destroyers
- 0
- Frigates
- 11
- Corvettes
- 6
Nuclear weapons
- Warheads
- 0
- Deployed warheads
- 0
Compare Germany with
Australia 路 Brazil 路 China 路 Egypt 路 France 路 India 路 Indonesia 路 Iran 路 Israel 路 Italy 路 Japan 路 North Korea 路 Pakistan 路 Poland 路 Russia 路 Saudi Arabia 路 South Korea 路 Spain 路 Taiwan 路 Turkey 路 Ukraine 路 United Kingdom 路 United States
Last updated 2026-10-27. Sources: Global Firepower 2026 (personnel, equipment counts, powerindex), SIPRI Military Expenditure 2025 (Apr 2026) (military spending, share of gdp), SIPRI Yearbook 2026: World Nuclear Forces (nuclear warheads (jan 2026)).