The total number of UK Armed Forces ships, tanks, aircraft and more revealed

The latest publication of the numbers, types of equipment, and formations of the UK Armed Forces has been released by the Ministry of Defence (MOD).

Complemented by Department for Transport (DfT) data on militarily useful British-registered vessels, the MOD report offers detailed insights into the current state and changes in the UK's defence assets.

Forces News has taken a look at the numbers and also how they compare to last year, with the UK Armed Forces balancing the retiring of older equipment and the introduction of newer advanced platforms across all its domains.

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[generalpeeps]

I know its inconsequential in the end but at least make the effort to have graphics that are UK used equipment (the fighter was an F15 and the tank was a leopard 2)

[Ianmundo]

the real number everyone should be talking about is the headcount of the MoD, the Ministry of Defence in 2022 numbered over 53, 000 civil servants. That’s almost as large as the RAF and Royal Navy COMBINED. The MoD is where the billions in the Defence budget is wasted on endless bloated, and usually cancelled ‘projects’

[frazer]

5th largest defence budget in the world and all we have is a tin pot home guard outfit.
It’s shameful

[dazady]

Our weakest point in history. It's all because of politicians

[philsilva]

At the rate of losses in Ukraine we should be able to last about 3

[momo]

France is a similar developed country as the UK, relatively close sized gdp, wage levels and population size, yet France has more ships, aircraft, tanks and a larger army all while spending about 15 billion dollars less each year.

[fatstar]

Shocking how small our armed forces have become in my 37 year lifetime

[HMSDaring]

The numbers are shocking compared to two decades ago - however it's far worse than that. What's hidden is that a significant portion of those numbers are not combat ready, look at the Royal Navy for example, both Albion and Bulwalk are significant time-frames away from being ready for action, the Type 45's struggle with availability and same for the 23's. Likewise with the RAF, haemorrhaging pilots and barely any ordnance to fit to the aircraft.

[jjsmallpiece]

RAF 137 Typhoons - does that include the 30 odd Mk1 Typhoons that are being taken out of service - so just over 100 Typhoons in reality

[michaelhart]

Never mind the armed forces, our industrial base was shut down and flogged off decades ago . In any future conflict we would be incapable of producing anything in any real numbers, armament wise . It’s no good looking at the service sector which is worshipped by our politicians, to produce a single shell or bullet, never mind armoured vehicles etc . We don’t even own what’s left of our own steel industry anymore .

[wickedjuice]

Now down to the comments to hear what the Youtube Experts have to say about this.

[guyb]

In the case of a war with Russia, it's not a case of how many you have, but how many more you can create, and in what time frame. What you have will only get you so far. What can you do in the long term?

[svenhaheim]

Its so little for a country like britain every number should be 3x at least.

[monkeyboy]

The UK military is so large it needs two Defence Secretary's - Can't Shapps and Michael Green.

[eidqdwi]

We are more of a defence force these days

[thejeffinvade]

0:16 Vanguard tried to launch trident ICBM twice, failed twice. In the the latest failure two weeks ago, Defence Secretary Grant Shapps on board the HMS Vanguard, but we still failed.
I don't think UK nuclear deterrence is really reliable at the moment.

[Beauloqs]

In the grand scheme of things weve about six men, two of which are on light duties and a donkey to carry the radio

[razrose]

An interesting video but I think the actual numbers of serviceable items would about 60% of the figures claimed on a good day.

[Backwardlooking]

Requires increased investment. Two World Wars proved that would-be aggressors are only deterred by strength.

[franklongwill]

forgetting to say that both aircraft carriers are broken, and the nukes dont work. and youve got no long range air defence....