{"id":150587,"date":"2024-11-21T23:01:53","date_gmt":"2024-11-21T13:01:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/uk-makes-massive-defense-cuts-helicopters-uavs-save-630-million\/"},"modified":"2024-11-21T23:01:53","modified_gmt":"2024-11-21T13:01:53","slug":"uk-makes-massive-defense-cuts-including-helicopters-uavs-to-save-around-630-million","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=150587","title":{"rendered":"UK Makes Massive Defense Cuts Including Helicopters &amp; UAVs To Save  Around $630 Million"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Amid the war in Ukraine, deteriorating security in Europe, and rising European defense budgets, the             <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\" data-id=\"204667\"style=\";  ;\" class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/tag\/united-kingdom\/\"  >United Kingdom<\/a><\/span> has taken the decision to scrap a bunch of aging             <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\" data-id=\"60458\"style=\";  ;\" class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/tag\/helicopters\/\"  >helicopters<\/a><\/span> along with five warships. This is in spite of the fact that the UK has been one of the few countries in NATO to consistently spend 2% of GDP on defense and has said it plans to raise that to 2.5% (although it hasn&#8217;t said by when). Meanwhile, the         <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink-article\" data-id=\"2036174\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/uk-italy-japan-gcap-6th-gen-jet-fighter-project-other-countries\/\" >UK has recently reaffirmed its commitment to the sixth-gen Tempest or GCAP fighter program and wants to see more countries join it<\/a><\/span>. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The British are set to axe over two dozen aging helicopters along with Army drones and five Royal Navy ships.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[396,817,412,1449,411,12043],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-150587","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aircraft","category-british-army","category-military","category-raf","category-royal-air-force","category-royal-navy"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150587","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=150587"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150587\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":150588,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150587\/revisions\/150588"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=150587"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=150587"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=150587"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}