At a glance: Key points from government's defence strategy

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Oscar Bentley

Political reporter

PA Media Prime Minister Keir Starmer and Defence Secretary John Healey sojourn  BAE Systems successful  Govan, GlasgowPA Media

Keir Starmer launched the reappraisal alongside Defence Secretary John Healey astatine BAE Systems successful Govan, Glasgow

Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer has acceptable retired the government's defence strategy for the adjacent decade.

The alleged "root and branch" review of the UK's defence capability, led by erstwhile UK defence caput and Nato caput wide Lord Robertson, looked astatine everything from instrumentality to unit to aboriginal threats.

The authorities says they volition instrumentality each of the review's 62 recommendations.

Here is simply a summary of the government's effect to the review.

Strategic goals

  • A Nato-first defence policy, with the UK's "biggest contribution" to the subject confederation since it was founded successful 1949
  • Move to "war-fighting readiness" arsenic the equipped forces' cardinal purpose
  • A "defence dividend", with defence concern utilized to thrust growth, creating jobs and driving concern crossed the country

Army, Navy and Air Force

  • Create a hybrid Royal Navy that uses aircraft, drones, warships, submarines to patrol the northbound Atlantic "and beyond"
  • A "10-times much lethal" army, combining aerial defence, artificial intelligence, long-range weapons and onshore drone swarms
  • A "next generation" RAF with caller F-35 jets, Typhoon jets and autonomous aircraft
  • New defence exports bureau successful the Ministry of Defence, exporting to UK allies
  • Save £6bn by 2029 with ratio savings and changes to the civilian defence workforce

Nuclear plans

  • Build 12 caller onslaught submarines arsenic portion of the Aukus programme successful concern with Australia and the United States, with a caller submarine delivered each 18 months
  • £15bn concern successful the sovereign warhead programme, arsenic portion of the renewal of the aged Trident atomic deterrent
  • Programme would make 9,000 jobs and "thousands more" further down proviso chains

Personnel and reserves

  • Small summation to the size of the regular service to 76,000 full-time soldiers aft 2029 - though this has yet to beryllium funded
  • A fully-trained strategical reserve, acceptable to mobilise astatine immoderate time
  • Over £1.5bn other backing until 2029 to amended accommodation for the UK equipped forces
  • Increase fig of Armed Forces cadets by 30% and present a voluntary cadets spread twelvemonth for schoolhouse and assemblage leavers

Cyber

  • Battlefield decisions astir targets to beryllium taken quicker with £1bn concern which volition amended articulation up weapons systems
  • Establish a caller Cyber and Electromagnetic Command to pb antiaircraft and violative cyber capabilities, arsenic good arsenic electromagnetic warfare - specified arsenic the quality to jam signals to drones oregon missiles

Weaponry, instrumentality and innovation

  • £11bn yearly fund for front-line kit
  • Building astatine slightest six caller munitions and energetics factories, backed by a £1.5bn authorities concern and creating implicit 1,000 jobs
  • Building up to 7,000 long-range weapons, supporting astir 800 jobs
  • Invest successful "world leading" drone capabilities and battlefield tech
  • £400m concern successful a UK defence innovation organisation
  • £1bn caller backing for a UK aerial and rocket defence
  • UK's craft carriers to go archetypal "hybrid aerial wings" of a European country, lodging drones, jets and long-range weapons.
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