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Top 10 largest military spenders in 2024-25: Where does India rank in comparison with the US, China?
November 12, 2025 1:50 pm
Top 10 Countries with Highest Military Expenditure in 2024-25 List: According to the report, the US leads and spends $949.21 billion on the military, the most by any country annually, as of 2024.
Top 10 countries with the highest military spending as a share of GDP: Where does India rank?
June 24, 2025 2:11 pm
Global military spending surged 37% from 2015 to 2025. Ukraine has the highest military burden, spending 34% of its GDP on military.
Global Defence Budgets 2025: Top 10 countries and India’s rank revealed
June 25, 2025 7:53 am
The world's largest military spender in 2025, the United States, not only continues to dominate the rankings but also makes up 62.3% of the global top 5.
Top 10 most powerful countries by military aircraft fleet in 2025: India secures a spot in top 5
October 08, 2025 9:32 am
Top 10 Countries With Most Powerful Airforce in the World: Among the top 10 most powerful air forces, India is ranked 4th with 2,229 aircraft, following the US, Russia and China.
India’s arms imports fell by a third between 2011-15 and 2016-20: report
March 16, 2021 3:06 am
However, India remains the second highest importer, only behind Saudi Arabia. The top five global arms exporters were the US, Russia, France, Germany and China in 2016-2020.
PM Modi: Govt to move forward in defence sector with transparency
February 23, 2021 1:20 am
Modi said India has made a list of 101 important items related to defence, which can be manufactured indigenously with the help of industries.
Budget 2019: Defence allocation raised to Rs 4.31 lakh crore, 15.47% of total outlay
July 05, 2019 7:20 pm
The defence sector, which receives the lion's share of the budget, is critical for the armed forces which have undertaken several modernisation and upgradation projects.
From rural, defence to taxpayers: Revisiting Modi govt's last five budgets
July 04, 2019 7:42 pm
In the first Budget of Modi 2.0, the armed forces will be vying for an increase in the budgetary allocation with its eye set on modernisation and upgradation projects to deal with challenging security aspects both within and outside India.
J&K: Traders welcome Union Budget, increase in defence allocation
February 01, 2019 10:36 pm
However, the Chamber feels that there should have been some relaxation in GST regime wherein services are being taxed as highest as 18 per cent effecting every citizen of the country.
The problem with raising India’s defence expenditure to 3 per cent of GDP
August 31, 2018 1:14 am
An IDSA analysis argues that increase will lead to capital spending cuts elsewhere; way ahead lies in fixing imbalance in the defence budget.
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