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Talk on Defence spending - Coggle Diagram
Talk on Defence spending
Facts
Former UK service chiefs claim the Army is 20 years out of date
Navy underfunded
Hit hard by rising costs of US planes
RAF close to engineering capacity
2 percent spent of GDP
Other areas of spending
Defence: 43 billion
187 billion pensions
171 billion of health and social care
107 billion education
How many people are employed in the forces
Direct
135,000 employed
In direct
Companies reliant on defence
532498
BAE 85,800
Lockhead Martin 110000
Rolls-Royce Holdings 50,000
Boeing 153,027
Airbus 133671
What is the money spent on
26.5 percent service personal
18.7 equipment support
Specialist military equipment
11.2 Infrastructure
Value to economy (income for country)
Provides turnover of 22.7 billion pound per year
Purpose
defence, security and resilience of the UK and its overseas territories
Nuclear deterrence
Contribute to improved understanding of the world through strategic intelligence
Influence through international defence engagement
Overseas defence activity
Direct defence
Introduction
First plane experience anecdote
Talk about wanting to fly everyday
Expensive for commercial
Want to join RAF
Rising personal interest in military and armed forces
Anecdote about argument about defence spending
Activities
Combat
QRA RAF teams
Help to prevent 9/11 scenarios
Russian Bombers
Army training up Kurdish forces for IS attacks
Non-combat
Served in the corona virus pandemic
Supported emergency services
Training army medics to treat the virus
Arguments
against defence spending
Arm sales to dodgy regimes
Trident can be used for other purposes
for defence spending
Trident acts a deterrent
Cost of Trident only makes up 5 percent of our defence spending
De commissioning of Trident would cost over 4 billion over several years
Conclusion