Country profile 路 public, aggregate figures
France
France fields 205,000 active soldiers and 40,000 reservists, with 220 tanks and 250 combat aircraft. It shares a land border with 6 countries. Below is how the model plays out a war on each of those borders.
France in numbers
Active soldiers
205,000
Reservists
40,000
Tanks
220
Armoured vehicles
1,500
Artillery
110
Combat aircraft
250
Helicopters
400
Defence budget
$62.0bn
GDP
$3,100bn
Population
68.0m
Compiled from public sources and pinned to a versioned snapshot. Values marked as estimates are labelled as such on the data sources page. Not operational information.
Simulated wars involving France
Europe vs Russia, without the United States
Ceasefire, front frozen after 270 days
The European Union vs Russia
Ceasefire, front frozen after 305 days
France vs Belgium
Side A achieves its objectives after 155 days
France vs Germany
Defender holds after 274 days
France vs Italy
Defender holds after 269 days
France vs Luxembourg
Side A achieves its objectives after 5 days
France vs Spain
Ceasefire, front frozen after 250 days
France vs Switzerland
Side A achieves its objectives after 137 days
NATO vs Russia
Defender holds after 210 days
Neighbours
Build your own scenario with France
Pick who it fights, who joins in, the season and how much of the reserve is called up, then watch the front move day by day.
Model-generated simulation on public, country-level data. Not a prediction. No operational, classified or real-time information is used.