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Australiavs Egypt

On Global Firepower's 2026 index, Australia (#17) holds a narrow edge over Egypt (#19).

  • Australia has destroyers; Egypt has none.
  • Egypt fields 79× as many tanks.
  • Egypt fields 10× as many fighters.

Who leads in each area

  1. People and moneyEgypt leads 3 of 4
  2. Land forcesEgypt leads 5 of 5
  3. Air powerEgypt leads 6 of 7
  4. Naval forcesEgypt leads 4 of 7
  5. Nuclear weaponsEven, 0–0

Leads count raw numbers in each category. Larger is not always stronger: a modern fleet can beat a bigger, older one.

People and money

Who can be put in uniform, and how much is spent keeping them there.

$35.3B
Military spending
$5.2B*
59K
Active personnel
439K
33K
Reserves
479K
0
Paramilitary
300K

Spending is SIPRI's 2025 estimate in US dollars (Australia: 1.9% of GDP). * SIPRI publishes no figure for this country, so the Global Firepower budget estimate is shown instead.

Land forces

Armour and artillery: the weight an army can put on the ground.

46
Tanks
3,620
17K
Armored vehicles
55K
0
Self-propelled artillery
1,056
48
Towed artillery
962
8
Rocket artillery
648

Air power

Fixed-wing and rotary aircraft across all branches.

348
Total aircraft
1,088
24
Fighters
242
71
Attack aircraft
90
72
Helicopters
348
22
Attack helicopters
100
6
Tankers
0
37
Transports
53

Naval forces

Hull counts, from carriers down to patrol boats.

45
Total fleet
149
0
Aircraft carriers
0
2
Helicopter carriers
2
6
Submarines
8
3
Destroyers
0
7
Frigates
13
0
Corvettes
7

Nuclear weapons

Estimated warheads in military stockpiles, January 2026.

0
Warheads
0
0
Deployed warheads
0

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Profiles: Australia and Egypt. Sources: Global Firepower 2026, SIPRI Military Expenditure 2025 (Apr 2026), SIPRI Yearbook 2026: World Nuclear Forces.