France
Global Firepower rank #6 of 145 路 PowerIndex 0.1798 (lower is stronger)
SIPRI puts France's 2025 military spending at $68 billion, 2% of GDP and up 1.5% on the year in real terms, ranking #9 in the world. It is a nuclear-armed state with an estimated 290 warheads in its military stockpile, about 280 of them deployed (SIPRI, January 2026).
Alliances: NATO, EU
People and money
- Military spending
- $68.0B
- Active personnel
- 264K
- Reserves
- 43K
- Paramilitary
- 150K
Land forces
- Tanks
- 427
- Armored vehicles
- 111K
- Self-propelled artillery
- 74
- Towed artillery
- 0
- Rocket artillery
- 9
Air power
- Total aircraft
- 974
- Fighters
- 223
- Attack aircraft
- 0
- Helicopters
- 452
- Attack helicopters
- 67
- Tankers
- 15
- Transports
- 118
Naval forces
- Total fleet
- 166
- Aircraft carriers
- 1
- Helicopter carriers
- 3
- Submarines
- 9
- Destroyers
- 11
- Frigates
- 5
- Corvettes
- 0
Nuclear weapons
- Warheads
- 290
- Deployed warheads
- 280
Compare France with
Australia 路 Brazil 路 China 路 Egypt 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 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)).