Military profile
Slovenia Military Strength
Slovenia ranks #86 of 145 in the Global Firepower military strength ranking, with 7,000 active personnel. It spent $1.2 billion on its military in 2025 (1.5% of GDP).
Slovenia armed forces in numbers
Personnel
- Active military personnel
- 7,000#131 of 145
- Reserve military personnel
- 2,000#82 of 145
- Paramilitary forces
- 5,000#88 of 145
- Army personnel
- 5,000#132 of 145
- Air force personnel
- 400#127 of 145
- Navy personnel
- 320#109 of 145
Air power
- Total military aircraft
- 37#101 of 145
- Fighter aircraft
- 0#95 of 145
- Attack aircraft
- 0#65 of 145
- Military helicopters
- 12#109 of 145
- Attack helicopters
- 0#79 of 145
Land forces
- Tanks
- 48#93 of 145
- Self-propelled artillery
- 8#90 of 145
- Towed artillery
- 36#86 of 145
- Rocket artillery
- 5#93 of 145
Naval power
- Aircraft carriers
- 0#8 of 113
- Destroyers
- 0#15 of 113
- Frigates
- 0#56 of 113
- Corvettes
- 0#47 of 113
- Submarines
- 0#44 of 113
- Patrol vessels
- 2#102 of 113
- Mine warfare vessels
- 0#53 of 113
Finance
- Military spending
- $1.2 billion#81 of 156
- Military spending as % of GDP
- 1.5%#86 of 156
- Purchasing power parity (GDP, PPP)
- $76.8 billion#94 of 145
Equipment and personnel: Global Firepower 2023 military strength ranking (2023). Spending: World Bank / SIPRI military expenditure data (CC BY 4.0).
Slovenia military spending 2010–2025
Military spending of Slovenia grew by 58% between 2010 and 2025, from $772 million to $1.2 billion (current US dollars), and stood at 1.5% of GDP in 2025.
Armed forces of Slovenia
Branches and forces
Slovenian Armed Forces (Slovenska Vojska, SV): structured as a combined force with air, land, maritime, and special operations components Ministry of Interior: National Police (2025)
Personnel
approximately 6,000 active military personnel (2025)
Service age and conscription
18-30 years of age for voluntary military service for men and women; recruits sign up for 3-, 5-, or 10-year service contracts; no conscription (2026)
Equipment and suppliers
the military's inventory is a mix of Soviet/Cold War-era and smaller quantities of more modern, mostly Western equipment; Slovenia is in the midst of a modernization program to replace its Soviet-era equipment with NATO-standard European and US systems (2025)
Deployments abroad
110 Kosovo (NATO); up to 200 Slovakia (NATO) (2025)
Good to know
the Slovenian Armed Forces (Slovenska Vojska or SV) are responsible for the defense of the country’s sovereignty and territory, deterring external threats, and contributing to European security and other international peacekeeping missions; the SV is also active in civil-military cooperation, such as the maintenance of local infrastructure; Slovenia has been a member of the EU and NATO since 2004, and one of the SV’s key missions is fulfilling the country’s commitments to NATO, including equipment modernization, participating in training exercises, and contributing to NATO operations; the SV provides troops to NATO’s efforts to enhance its presence in the Baltics (Latvia) and Eastern Europe (Slovakia); it has also participated in other international security missions with small numbers of personnel in such places as Africa, southern Europe, the Mediterranean Sea, and the Middle East; NATO allies Hungary and Italy provide air policing for Slovenia the SV was formally established in 1993 as a reorganization of the Slovenia Defense Force; the Defense Force, along with the Slovenian police, comprised the majority of the forces that engaged with the Yugoslav People’s Army during the 10-Day War after Slovenia declared its independence in 1991 (2025)
Military expenditure (% of GDP)
2025: 2% · 2024: 1.4% · 2023: 1.3% · 2022: 1.3% · 2021: 1.2%
Forces and service: CIA World Factbook (public domain).
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