John Healey ramps up defence spending

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The defence secretary has paid a visit to a Royal Air Force station following his pledge to ramp up defence spending this week. John Healey flew in an army helicopter and operated a drone during the visit to RAF Northolt in South Ruislip in London on Tuesday.   Report by Kennedyl. Like us on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/itn and follow us on Twitter at http://twitter.com/itn

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00:00Britain's been leading the support for Ukraine amongst other nations and what

00:06Ukraine tells us is the nature of warfare is changing. Drones are killing

00:12more people than traditional artillery and the lesson we draw from Ukraine it

00:17was there in the strategic defense review yesterday is that the nations

00:21that can combine the innovation of AI technology autonomy and drones with the

00:27heavy metal platforms of tanks artillery and planes will have the battlefield

00:33edge and so that's what the strategic defense review recommends and I'm here

00:38today the day after we published the review to confirm the action that we're

00:44already taking. I'm committing today announcing four billion pounds doubling

00:48the amount in this parliament that we will spend on developing drones for our

00:53three services

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