Maintaining global military power

• US and EU allies needed for now in the middle east
• UK defence budget in 2024 = £58bn

  US defence budget in 2024 = $916bn
• 2016 only had 6 type 45 destroyers in Royal Navy
• NATO minimum defence spending of 2%
• US accounted for 22.1% of NATO spending in 2016
• In 2016 UK government renewed trident to build Dreadnought submarines. Cost £100b - £250b over a 40-50 year period
• Each sub has 16 missiles which can be armed with 8 warheads
• Edging on borderline failure - patrols having to come in due to running out of food
• Decomissioned submarines in devon port - graveyard for submarines
• Numer of combat aircraft - USA = 3300, Russia = 1900, China = 1500, India = 1100
• R&D for planes really expensive - one F-35b costs £89m each
• Intelligence services are expensive as very labour intensive despite tech improvements
• Inteliigence has foiled numerous terrorist attacks such as Vienna taylor swift in 2024
• Space budget in 2014: USA = $17b, EU = $6b, Russia = $6b, Japan = $2b, China = $1.5b

  Joint funding from most for the ISS
• UK new spaceport - SaxaVord in Scotland. Gov gave £5m for a sub orbital rocket. Also Newquay spaceport
• HMS Queen elizabeth cost £7b
• $28b to put people on moon by 2025
• Weaponised satelites which can disable GPS -essential for Nuclear weapon guidance
• BAE’s Phasa35. Plane Can go to stratosphere and can operate as a satellite for 6 months.