The UK will create the production capacity of ‘Always to’ to allow it to set up its defense industry if necessary, as it is increasingly moving to a war foot with Russia’s assault on Ukraine that is little sign of end. Premier Keir Starmer Government will invest £ 1.5bn to build six factories in the ammunition, designed to strengthen its defense industry and set up weapons to meet a greater demand, the Ministry of Defense said. The review will also focus on the UK’s “war readiness” designed to ward off enemies. The move comes before the publication of a new defense strategy on Monday that faces the biggest threats and whether it has the resources to meet them. The UK’s ordinance stock has dried up after decades of under-investment as well as the recent support for Ukraine. Although it produces much of its own ammunition, a decision from the last labor government meant that it had outsourced his explosives manufacturing to the US and France. The UK is partly addressing its chronic reluctance to invest in its own defense industry for decades, which drops the size of its own army to its smallest since the Napoleonic era. It has recently been announced that the new strategy will “end” the new strategy of the British military, which loses as much as 300 staff a month, by investing an extra £ 1.5 billion to improve military accommodation. “We have even more people leaving than joining. The first task is to turn the tendency, and I want to see in the next parliament the ability to increase the number of full-time resources,” Defense Minister John Healey said in a BBC interview on Sunday. The Ministry of Defense refused to say which defense companies would build the new factories. The additional funding, which will take the UK’s ammunition to £ 6 billion in the next four years, will create more than 1,000 new jobs and help the armed forces endure long -term campaigns and support them in warfare, the ministry said. The government also promised to invest more than £ 1bn to establish a ‘digital target web’ to better connect Britain’s weapons systems and to make decisions to direct enemy threats on the battlefield. The review, published on Monday, is also in response to US President Donald Trump’s demand that Europe take more responsibility for his own safety, and the increasing military and cyber threats against the United Kingdom. Only weeks after Trump came to office, Starmer announced that by 2027 the UK would increase from 2.3% to 2.5%, with a further increase to 3% in the next parliament, to strengthen its military capabilities. “2034 is a long time to wait given the seriousness of the situation,” Robert Jenrick, secretary of Conservative Party Shadow Justice, said in a Sky News interview. “I’m skeptical about whether” Chancellor of the Treasury “Rachel Reeves is going to do well with these promises that she wants us to go further and faster.” The British chiefs of defense has privately warned that plans to raise military financing to 2.5% of economic production will not be enough and that cuts still have to be done as a result of the underfunding. Earlier this year, Starmer’s office and the Treasury informed that the 0.2% increase would simply allow the UK to stand still and maintain current capabilities, Bloomberg reported in February. The British military heads warn the 2.5% spending goal, despite the importance of the revision, Starmer’s administration is likely to be under pressure to increase its spending on defense even further as Europe and NATO want to invest at the summit in June. The target is 5% of economic production, with 3.5% on spending on hard defense, and 1.5% on military-related expenses such as cyber and border safety by 2032. © 2025 Bloomberg MP This article was generated from an automatic news agency feed without editing to the text.
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