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Egyptvs India

On Global Firepower's 2026 index, India (#4) holds a clear lead over Egypt (#19).

  • India has nuclear weapons; Egypt has none.
  • India has aircraft carriers; Egypt has none.
  • India has destroyers; Egypt has none.

Who leads in each area

  1. People and moneyIndia leads 4 of 4
  2. Land forcesIndia leads 3 of 5
  3. Air powerIndia leads 6 of 7
  4. Naval forcesIndia leads 6 of 7
  5. Nuclear weaponsIndia leads 2 of 2

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.

$5.2B*
Military spending
$92.1B
439K
Active personnel
1.43M
479K
Reserves
1M
300K
Paramilitary
2.53M

Spending is SIPRI's 2025 estimate in US dollars (India: 2.3% 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.

3,620
Tanks
3,913
55K
Armored vehicles
164K
1,056
Self-propelled artillery
100
962
Towed artillery
5,640
648
Rocket artillery
300

Air power

Fixed-wing and rotary aircraft across all branches.

1,088
Total aircraft
2,183
242
Fighters
476
90
Attack aircraft
124
348
Helicopters
594
100
Attack helicopters
79
0
Tankers
6
53
Transports
277

Naval forces

Hull counts, from carriers down to patrol boats.

149
Total fleet
343
0
Aircraft carriers
2
2
Helicopter carriers
0
8
Submarines
18
0
Destroyers
13
13
Frigates
18
7
Corvettes
21

Nuclear weapons

Estimated warheads in military stockpiles, January 2026.

0
Warheads
190
0
Deployed warheads
12

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