United States
Global Firepower rank #1 of 145 路 PowerIndex 0.0741 (lower is stronger)
SIPRI puts United States's 2025 military spending at $954 billion, 3.1% of GDP and down 7.5% on the year in real terms, ranking #1 in the world. It is a nuclear-armed state with an estimated 3,700 warheads in its military stockpile, about 1,770 of them deployed (SIPRI, January 2026).
Alliances: NATO
People and money
- Military spending
- $954B
- Active personnel
- 1.33M
- Reserves
- 800K
- Paramilitary
- 0
Land forces
- Tanks
- 4,666
- Armored vehicles
- 410K
- Self-propelled artillery
- 1,521
- Towed artillery
- 1,878
- Rocket artillery
- 1,731
Air power
- Total aircraft
- 13,032
- Fighters
- 1,791
- Attack aircraft
- 926
- Helicopters
- 5,913
- Attack helicopters
- 1,024
- Tankers
- 610
- Transports
- 917
Naval forces
- Total fleet
- 465
- Aircraft carriers
- 11
- Helicopter carriers
- 9
- Submarines
- 66
- Destroyers
- 83
- Frigates
- 0
- Corvettes
- 27
Nuclear weapons
- Warheads
- 3,700
- Deployed warheads
- 1,770
Compare United States with
- United StatesvsChina
- United StatesvsRussia
- United StatesvsIran
- United StatesvsNorth Korea
- United StatesvsIndia
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 Kingdom
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)).