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Country profile 路 public, aggregate figures

United Kingdom

United Kingdom fields 141,100 active soldiers and 70,450 reservists, with 227 tanks and 145 combat aircraft. It shares a land border with 1 country. Below is how the model plays out a war on each of those borders.

United Kingdom in numbers

Active soldiers
141,100
Reservists
70,450
Tanks
227
Armoured vehicles
1,000est.
Artillery
90est.
Combat aircraft
145
Helicopters
250est.
Defence budget
$96.1bn
GDP
$4,003bn
Population
69.5m

From free public sources: Wikipedia's country lists (citing the IISS Military Balance), the CIA World Factbook and the World Bank. Figures marked est. have no free source and are model estimates; every value's source is on the data sources page. Not operational information.

Simulated wars involving United Kingdom

Europe vs Russia, without the United States
Ceasefire, front frozen after 270 days
The Joint Expeditionary Force vs Russia
Side A achieves its objectives after 25 days
NATO vs Russia
Defender holds after 210 days
United Kingdom vs Ireland
Side A achieves its objectives after 28 days

Neighbours

Ireland
Build your own scenario with United Kingdom

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.