India
Global Firepower rank #4 of 145 路 PowerIndex 0.1346 (lower is stronger)
SIPRI puts India's 2025 military spending at $92.1 billion, 2.3% of GDP and up 8.9% on the year in real terms, ranking #5 in the world. It is a nuclear-armed state with an estimated 190 warheads in its military stockpile, about 12 of them deployed (SIPRI, January 2026).
People and money
- Military spending
- $92.1B
- Active personnel
- 1.43M
- Reserves
- 1M
- Paramilitary
- 2.53M
Land forces
- Tanks
- 3,913
- Armored vehicles
- 164K
- Self-propelled artillery
- 100
- Towed artillery
- 5,640
- Rocket artillery
- 300
Air power
- Total aircraft
- 2,183
- Fighters
- 476
- Attack aircraft
- 124
- Helicopters
- 594
- Attack helicopters
- 79
- Tankers
- 6
- Transports
- 277
Naval forces
- Total fleet
- 343
- Aircraft carriers
- 2
- Helicopter carriers
- 0
- Submarines
- 18
- Destroyers
- 13
- Frigates
- 18
- Corvettes
- 21
Nuclear weapons
- Warheads
- 190
- Deployed warheads
- 12
Compare India with
Australia 路 Brazil 路 China 路 Egypt 路 France 路 Germany 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)).