Prime Minister David Cameron has this afternoon revealed the details of the Strategic Defence and Security Review, including an eight per cent cut in overall defence spending.
The UK’s fleet of Harriers is to be decommissioned, David Cameron stating that either they or Britain’s Tornadoes had to be cut. The Nimrod programme is being cancelled too and many orders are to be downsized, including Chinooks, from 22 to 12. The Navy’s premier aircraft carrier, the HMS Ark Royal , is to be…
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