Spain
Global Firepower rank #18 of 145 路 PowerIndex 0.3247 (lower is stronger)
SIPRI puts Spain's 2025 military spending at $40.2 billion, 2.1% of GDP and up 50% on the year in real terms, ranking #15 in the world. It has no nuclear weapons of its own.
Alliances: NATO, EU
People and money
- Military spending
- $40.2B
- Active personnel
- 122K
- Reserves
- 24K
- Paramilitary
- 78K
Land forces
- Tanks
- 298
- Armored vehicles
- 49K
- Self-propelled artillery
- 96
- Towed artillery
- 188
- Rocket artillery
- 0
Air power
- Total aircraft
- 440
- Fighters
- 136
- Attack aircraft
- 12
- Helicopters
- 169
- Attack helicopters
- 17
- Tankers
- 0
- Transports
- 51
Naval forces
- Total fleet
- 175
- Aircraft carriers
- 1
- Helicopter carriers
- 0
- Submarines
- 2
- Destroyers
- 0
- Frigates
- 11
- Corvettes
- 0
Nuclear weapons
- Warheads
- 0
- Deployed warheads
- 0
Compare Spain with
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 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)).