Russia
Global Firepower rank #2 of 145 路 PowerIndex 0.0791 (lower is stronger)
SIPRI puts Russia's 2025 military spending at $190 billion (estimate), 7.5% of GDP and up 5.9% on the year in real terms, ranking #3 in the world. It is a nuclear-armed state with an estimated 4,400 warheads in its military stockpile, about 1,796 of them deployed (SIPRI, January 2026).
Alliances: CSTO
People and money
- Military spending
- $190B
- Active personnel
- 1.32M
- Reserves
- 2M
- Paramilitary
- 250K
Land forces
- Tanks
- 5,630
- Armored vehicles
- 127K
- Self-propelled artillery
- 3,603
- Towed artillery
- 5,920
- Rocket artillery
- 2,486
Air power
- Total aircraft
- 4,237
- Fighters
- 861
- Attack aircraft
- 698
- Helicopters
- 1,643
- Attack helicopters
- 556
- Tankers
- 18
- Transports
- 458
Naval forces
- Total fleet
- 747
- Aircraft carriers
- 1
- Helicopter carriers
- 0
- Submarines
- 66
- Destroyers
- 13
- Frigates
- 12
- Corvettes
- 79
Nuclear weapons
- Warheads
- 4,400
- Deployed warheads
- 1,796
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Australia 路 Brazil 路 China 路 Egypt 路 France 路 Germany 路 India 路 Indonesia 路 Iran 路 Israel 路 Italy 路 Japan 路 North Korea 路 Pakistan 路 Poland 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)).