All three services will take cuts in manpower. Overall, this will mean the largest overseas deployment possible will be 30,000 troops. This compares to the 45,000 involved in the invasion of Iraq.

British Army
The British Army presence in Germany will end by 2020.
Overall personnel numbers will drop by 7,000 to 95,500.
The number of Challenger 2 tanks cut by 40% and AS-90 heavy artillery by 35%.

Royal Air Force
Personnel will be reduced by 5,000 to 33,000.
Nimrod MRA4 project, £984 million over-budget, to be scrapped.
RAF Kinloss, where the aircraft are based, will close.
Future Strategic Tanker Aircraft procurement will go ahead, as will the Airbus A400M. These aircraft, along with the current C-17s, will form the future air transport fleet. The VC-10 and Tristars are approaching the end of their services lives and the C-130 fleet will be retired 10 years earlier than planned.
12 Boeing Chinooks will be added to the current fleet.
The RAF's future fast jet fleet will be based on the Typhoon and the F-35 Lightning II. The latter, which will also be flown by the Royal Navy, will be the more capable and cheaper F-35C version. The UK has originally planned to buy the F-35B, a Short Take Off and Vertical Landing aircraft. The F-35C has longer range, greater payload capability and the MOD envisages life cycle costs to be 25% cheaper than the F-35B.
The Sentinel R1 will be retired once it is no longer required to support forces in Afghanistan.

Royal Navy
The Royal Navy flagship aircraft carrier HMS Ark Royal will be decommissioned "almost immediately" rather than in 2014. The Joint Force Harrier aircraft will be retired. Both of these measures will save money for the purchase of the Queen Elizabeth class aircraft carriers.
Either HMS Ocean or HMS Illustrious will be decommissioned, whichever is least capable as a helicopter carrier.
One of the Bay class landing ship dock would be decommissioned.
Replacement of the UK's nuclear deterrent based on Royal Navy Vanguard class submarines (SSBNs) will be delayed by four years, saving £750 million.
7 Astute class submarines will be built as previously planned.
The surface fleet of frigates and destroyers will be reduced to 19. "As soon as possible after 2020" the Type 26 frigates will replace the Type 23 frigates.
The strength of the RN will be reduced by 5,000 (to a total of about 30,000).

Everything has to be cut, there is no two ways about it. It's all about the rate at which you cut. Cut to slow and we're going to get plunged further into debt and further generations will be paying for it. Cut to fast and you're going to put us back into (or close to) recession.

Cutting defense budgets at a time when we are massively under equipped and in a war is boarding on criminally insane. The tories are to worried about looking out for their rich friends who were born with a silver spoon up their arse. Them inbred toffs have never worked a hard day in their lives. It's ****ing sickening how these people can be on ridiculously high pay and have such easy jobs. Then they have the ****ing cheek to tax us, the people living in the most deprived areas of the country. Well done Britain, give yourself a slow and sarcastic round of applause.

Damn, Back to Third world porn for me.