The United Kingdom must spend 68 billion pounds to modernize the military, as the defense review indicates

The United Kingdom will need to spend about 68 billion pounds to prepare its armed forces for the modern war, and the long -awaited strategic defense review indicates that the budget pressures on the Sir Kiir Starmer government.

Reviewing the weapons that the UK will need to launch a continuous war against a competing country is a greater use of drones, independent vehicles and artificial intelligence that will turn the British soldier into a “digital fighter”.

However, he also argues that the UK needs to spend large sums on large ticket elements such as new nuclear warheads, submarines and combat aircraft. The shares of the major British defense companies rose on Monday.

“This is the most deep change for the armed forces in Britain for 150 years,” said the co -author of the review, Sir Richard Barons.

Starmer refused to give a fixed date on Monday to Britain’s day Defense spending It will rise to 3 percent of GDP, which is the target level of the government, because it has pledged that the armed forces that were armed in the UK would reach “the willingness of war fighting.”

The government pledged to increase spending from 2.3 percent of GDP to 2.5 percent by 2027, an increase of about 6 billion pounds annually.

“Given the current pressure in the budget, the need to rebuild the foundations of the defense, it is unlikely the increase … it will be sufficient without other discounts,” said Matthew Savil from the Royal United Institute of Intellectual Services.

The SDR report, issued on Monday, said that the goal is to “increase the national preparation for warfare, so that the United Kingdom can, then

Britain “should also learn from Ukraine’s exceptional experience in the ground war, Done, and hybrid conflict The report added, to develop his modern approach to wrestling war, “referring to the full conquest of Russia.

“The threats we face are more dangerous and unpredictable than any time since the end of the Cold War,” Defense Secretary John Healy told MPS.

“Our opponents are working more in alliance with each other while technology changes how the war is running. For a long time, our army has been asked to do more, with less.”

The cost of the SDR report is at least 67.6 billion pounds until the late thirties of the twentieth century, according to the previously detailed costs and estimates of industry experts from new ads.

SDR recommendations include 62 recommendations – all acceptable by the government – an investment of 15 billion pounds in the new nuclear warheads, and up to 12 new offensive submarines developed by AUKUS partnership with the United States and Australia by the end of the next decade: equivalent to a new boat every 18 months.

Sayed Kaushal, a Rusi naval expert, said that the program may cost about 2.6 billion pounds per boat, based on attack submarines in the equivalent of the American Virginia Category.

SDR also recommended the purchase of a new F-35 fighter and the global combat aircraft program, a sixth-generation fighter It is produced by the United Kingdom, Italy and Japan.

Justin Bronk, a Rusi expert in Air Power, said that the GCAP warplanes are likely to cost at least 10 billion pounds to 12 billion pounds to develop, while the second SIM of 27 F-35S at the head of 48 has already been purchased may cost 100 million pounds per aircraft.

Instead of increasing the size of the army outside the current target of 73000, the SDR report said that the most intelligent technology can allow “10 times an increase in the girl.”

He added that “many of the army’s capabilities – including the Challenger 2 tanks, AS90 artillery, and ammunition – have been talent recently to Ukraine,” and have not been updated since the 1990s.

The report said: “With the rebuilding of the army, investment must be paired with changes on how to organize it, and it works and is equipped … It can provide a 10 -fold increase in the dead by harnessing microfinance, monitoring technology, independence, digital communication and data.”

Despite the 73,000 target of the army’s numbers, “there is still a strong situation for a small increase in regular numbers when the financing is allowed,” while the reserve forces should be expanded quickly.

The SDR report also said that one billion pounds must be spent on a digital targeting platform, in addition to establishing a national electronic warfare leadership.

One of the ancient combat warriors in the fighting criticized the focus on technology, saying, “It seems that there is no idea about the reality of modern war – in terms of action, in terms of losses.”

The Institute of Financial Studies, which estimated Starmer’s defeat to raise defense spending to 2.5 percent of national income by 2027 would force the government to maintain public investment in other flat areas from this year until 2029-30.

If the government wants to increase military spending to 3 percent of GDP by the end of the decade, it will need to find an additional 17 billion pounds in 2030.

“This is more than 10 times what the government provides by testing fuel payments in the winter. You will have to make fuel payment reforms in winter 10, and this appears to be a challenge,” said Ben Zaranko, IFS assistant director.