United Kingdom
Global Firepower rank #8 of 145 路 PowerIndex 0.1881 (lower is stronger)
SIPRI puts United Kingdom's 2025 military spending at $89 billion, 2.4% of GDP and down 2% on the year in real terms, ranking #6 in the world. It is a nuclear-armed state with an estimated 225 warheads in its military stockpile, about 120 of them deployed (SIPRI, January 2026).
Alliances: NATO
People and money
- Military spending
- $89.0B
- Active personnel
- 141K
- Reserves
- 32K
- Paramilitary
- 0
Land forces
- Tanks
- 288
- Armored vehicles
- 94K
- Self-propelled artillery
- 14
- Towed artillery
- 126
- Rocket artillery
- 43
Air power
- Total aircraft
- 625
- Fighters
- 103
- Attack aircraft
- 38
- Helicopters
- 262
- Attack helicopters
- 50
- Tankers
- 9
- Transports
- 30
Naval forces
- Total fleet
- 116
- Aircraft carriers
- 2
- Helicopter carriers
- 0
- Submarines
- 10
- Destroyers
- 6
- Frigates
- 7
- Corvettes
- 0
Nuclear weapons
- Warheads
- 225
- Deployed warheads
- 120
Compare United Kingdom with
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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 Russia 路 Saudi Arabia 路 South Korea 路 Spain 路 Taiwan 路 Turkey 路 Ukraine 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)).