Country profile 路 public, aggregate figures
Switzerland
Switzerland fields 20,000 active soldiers and 120,000 reservists, with 130 tanks and 30 combat aircraft. It shares a land border with 4 countries. Below is how the model plays out a war on each of those borders.
Switzerland in numbers
Active soldiers
20,000
Reservists
120,000
Tanks
130
Armoured vehicles
600
Artillery
130
Combat aircraft
30
Helicopters
20
Defence budget
$6.0bn
GDP
$900bn
Population
8.9m
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 Switzerland
Neighbours
Build your own scenario with Switzerland
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.