Military > Army Stats: compare key data on France & United Kingdom
Definitions
- Armoured vehicles: Armoured vehicle.
- Attack helicopters: Number of attack helicopter (includes helicopters that have some attacking capabilities).
- Main battle tanks: Number of main battle tanks.
- Mortars: Mortar.
- Self-propelled guns: Self-propelled gun.
- Towed artillery units: Towed artillery.
- Troops prepared for deployed and sustained operation: Troops prepared for deployed and sustained operation.
- Troops prepared for deployed and sustained operation per million people: Troops prepared for deployed and sustained operation. Figures expressed per million people for the same year.
- Troops prepared for deployed operations: Troops prepared for deployed operations.
- Troops prepared for deployed operations per million people: Troops prepared for deployed operations. Figures expressed per million people for the same year.
SOURCES: Wikipedia: Military of the European Union (The table); Wikipedia: List of countries by level of military equipment (List); Wikipedia: Military of the European Union (The table) ("The 15 countries with the highest military expenditure in 2012 (table)" (PDF). Stockholm International Peace Research Institute . Retrieved 15 April 2013 .); Wikipedia: Military of the European Union (The table) ("The 15 countries with the highest military expenditure in 2012 (table)" (PDF). Stockholm International Peace Research Institute . Retrieved 15 April 2013 .). Population figures from World Bank: (1) United Nations Population Division. World Population Prospects, (2) United Nations Statistical Division. Population and Vital Statistics Report (various years), (3) Census reports and other statistical publications from national statistical offices, (4) Eurostat: Demographic Statistics, (5) Secretariat of the Pacific Community: Statistics and Demography Programme, and (6) U.S. Census Bureau: International Database.
