Twelve months have passed since UK Defence Secretary Liam Fox published the UK Strategic Defence and Security Review (SDSR): a study that cemented the deepest cuts to UK military investment and equipment programmes for almost 40 years. The SDSR, and the related Comprehensive Spending Review (CSR), mandated immediate spending cuts of eight per cent to 2014, shaving USD 17 billion from previously foreseen spending; cancelled a series of flagship programmes (including the BAE Systems Nimrod MRA.4 maritime patrol aircraft); and brought forward the retirement of others (such as the BAE Systems Harrier GR.9 jump jets and 40 per cent of the UK's heavy armoured vehicle fleet). Equipment cuts alone were intended to remove GBP20 billion (USD30.8 billion) from future procurement and related costs over a decade: a third of the envisaged pre-2009 spending plan for the period. Meanwhile, future procurement will begin with the assumption, outlined in the SDSR, that 'off-the-shelf solutions will be the default position.
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机译：自英国国防部长利亚姆·福克斯（Liam Fox）发表《英国战略防御与安全评论》（SDSR）以来，已经过去了十二个月：这项研究巩固了近40年来英国军事投资和装备计划的最大削减。 SDSR和相关的《综合支出审查》（CSR）要求到2014年立即削减8％的支出，比先前预计的支出减少170亿美元；取消了一系列旗舰计划（包括BAE Systems Nimrod MRA.4海上巡逻机）；并提前淘汰了其他人（例如BAE Systems Harrier GR.9跳跃式喷气机和英国重型装甲车队的40％）。仅设备削减一项，就可以在未来十年内从未来的采购和相关成本中节省200亿英镑（308亿美元）：这是该时期2009年以前支出计划的三分之一。同时，未来的采购将从SDSR中概述的假设开始，即“现成的解决方案将是默认位置”。
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