Trying to find breakdowns of defence budgets for the above countries but not able to till now, in the way that they're not specifying capex or budget per service. Hope someone can do it, it'll be quite interesting.
Conclusion : to me it looks indian defence capex is being spent far more effectively than the countries listed below, our budget has more bang for the buck and wider range of products. unless someone is able to provide more accurate information.
Canada, France, Germany, Indonesia, Saudi Arabia & Brazil.
Canada and France seem to follow 5 year plans for defence acquisitions.
Canada :
France:
France have mentioned only what they want to acquire but not annual capex amount. their total defence spending till 2025 is gonna be 300 billion euro.
Among the weapons to be ordered next year are a Barracuda nuclear-powered attack submarine, three fleet auxiliary tankers and two aircraft fitted for gathering electronic intelligence. The tanker ships will be bought in cooperation with Italy.
Other orders include upgrades for 10 Mirage 2000D fighters; 125 firing posts for the MMP anti-tank missile; 60 Meteor long-range air-to-air missiles; and six patrol boats for overseas deployment.
Some €758 million will be set aside on research and development studies, a step toward a pledge to spend €1 billion on R&D annually. Some €4.2 billion will be spent on service support, mostly dedicated to aircraft maintenance.
A six-strong batch of Reaper drones is due to be delivered next year.
Brazil :
- Brazil's annual defence budget was set at USD27.5 billion in 2019, real growth of 2.1 percent year on year.
- However, its defence procurement allocation was just USD1.3 billion, more than USD1 billion less than 2012 in real terms.
- Despite rising total spending, funding for equipment purchases fell dramatically last year, and now accounts for a historic low of just 5 percent of total military expenditure.
Saudi : defence budget is around 50 billion $, capex is not available.
Indonesia : The Indonesian government of President Joko Widodo has
proposed a 3 percent increase to the national budget for 2020, with
defense earmarked for a boost of 16% percent in year-on-year nominal investment. The defense budget – currently receiving an outlay of IDR109.6 trillion ($7.68 billion) – is set to rise to IDR127.4 billion ($8.9 billion) under the government proposal and will equal 5 percent of total spending
Achieving the 1.5 percent of GDP benchmark is in line with Indonesia’s larger military reform goal of creating a force-of-scale capable of meeting the minimum response required to deal with a variety of strategic threats by 2024. This end-goal is referred to as the Minimum Essential Force modernization program. The MEF involves recruiting, retaining, housing, equipping, and training a force that is able to deploy the minimal assets necessary to conduct counterinsurgency operations, international peacekeeping missions, and natural disaster relief operations, as well as provide offshore and exclusive economic zone (EEZ) protection.
Germany :
The draft budget for 2020 envisages €44.9 billion for the defense ministry. That represents 1.37% of GDP. However, NATO has put out repeated
calls for defense spending to rise to 2% GDP from member nations' economies. Germany's percentage still remains low compared with other, often much smaller and poorer nations such as Lithuania. In 2019, Germany's defense budget was just 1.2% of GDP.
The projects at risk
In her first budget speech in Parliament as
defense minister, Kramp-Karrenbauer said that soldiers who "risked life and limb" deserved the "best equipment." But projects that would not be affordable included:
- Night vision goggles;
- a successor to the Tornado fighter jet;
- a joint venture with Norway to acquire new submarines.
The acquisition of a heavy life helicopter, and a German battleship were singled out as projects which were able to be supported. In addition, it is likely the money will also be spent on the continued digitalization of the German armed forces.
Germany plans to spend EUR8.9 billion (USD9.9 billion) on armaments in 2020, the Ministry of Defence (MoD) said on its website on 5 December upon publication of its latest armaments report.
In 2019, the Bundeswehr received an F125 frigate, 45 Puma infantry fighting vehicles, four Eurofighter combat aircraft, and six A400M transports, among other systems, the ministry said in its 10th biannual armaments report. In addition, the Bundestag authorised spending EUR5.9 billion on new armaments projects in 2019, according to the MoD.
Germany’s EUR45.1 billion defence budget for 2020, representing a 4.2% increase from 2019, will be broken down into EUR7.4 billion(8.2 billion $) for procurement, EUR1.5 billion for development and testing, EUR4.5 billion in equipment and vehicle maintenance, and EUR3.2 billion in services for the Bundeswehr.