Balancing the Budget of the British

According to the British Ministry of Defence, completed work on reducing the expenditure of the Ministry in the next few years about 38 billion GBP, thereby fulfilling the goals of 2010.

The prototype reconnaissance tank for the British army Scout SV, developed by General Dynamics UK. The British Ministry of Defence originally planned purchase of 400 to 586 such vehicles, to replace Scimitarów age. Currently it is estimated that due to budget cuts, the volume of orders may be reduced.


The British military budget, even before the current crisis, struggling with a growing deficit. It was mainly due to cost overruns notorious weapons programs. Estimated that the discrepancy between the increasing value of the contracts, and financial capacity of the Ministry for several billion GBP. Subsequent reports of British MPs have been devastating for officials of the Ministry, which was defined as no ruling on the process of acquiring the equipment.

The economic crisis has significantly worsened the situation. In 2010 the UK authorities took decisive program of budget cuts that affected the military sector. Ministry of Defence was required to reduce the financial plans for the next few years as much as £ 38 billion, which translated into a real reduction in subsequent budgets by 8%. In absolute terms, this meant a reduction in recurrent expenditure of the Ministry (expenditure on foreign operations are financed from the state budget reserve) from 36.7 to GBP 33.5 billion in 2015 .

Then decided on the basic savings: reduced employment by 17 thousand. military posts and 25 thousand. strong civil and on reducing the number of used equipment. The reductions resulted in such to accelerate the withdrawal of aircraft carriers, the frigates, aircraft, Harrier aircraft and Nimrod maritime aircraft collect.

The cuts in the details - associated with the difficult negotiations with suppliers - but had to be spread over a longer period of time. Last week, the British Ministry of Defence announced that the project, with few exceptions, has already been completed. Ministry spokesperson said that it is possible already planning new purchases, based on a  balanced budget, the first time in decades .

Unfortunately, did not give any details. For this reason, if you can not get confirmed information about the future of basic weapons programs, including for example, the target number of F-35 and Eurofighter, armored vehicles and naval warfare.