Britain has spent on private military projects 320 million pounds

UK Ministry of Defense since 1998 has spent on the military implementation of development projects of various armored vehicles, then closed, 320 million pounds (520 million dollars), according to Defense News citing a report of the National Audit Office (NAO). As a result, closure of projects the UK armed forces, according to the NAO, will experience a shortage of armored vehicles until at least 2024-2025 years.

At various times, trying to save money defense budget, the Ministry of Defence in the first place resorted to a reduction in spending on a vehicle. Because of this military department during the period from 2005 to 2010, managed to save 5.6 billion pounds sterling, and the revision number of programs, undertaken in October 2010, the economy will make further 1.8 billion pounds.

Recall that in October 2010 the UK government unveiled the National Security Strategy, implying a significant reduction in the arms of the country, as well as the number of military personnel and employees of the Ministry of Defence. The document is intended to significantly reduce the defense budget deficit the UK, which in the next ten years will be 38 billion pounds, as well as reduce the costs of the state budget by 10-20 percent over the next four years.

Among the closed or frozen programs NAO called armored Tracer, MRAV, FRES and Terrier. In general, the costs of private and frozen creation program armored vehicles, as well as the modernization and maintenance of already taken arms in armored cars totaled 1.12 billion pounds in 1998. Another 9.1 billion will be spent on completion frozen at current programs Warrior and FRES.

In order to compensate for some lack of armored vehicles in the Army, the Ministry of Defence since 2003 on several occasions has announced a program of urgent military procurement. Under such a program at 2.8 billion pounds was purchased equipment for delivery in Afghanistan and Iraq.