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Some air force bases will close and 5,000 RAF personnel will lose their jobs over the next five years

The Harrier jump jet and Nimrod reconnaissance planes will be scrapped

Some squadrons of Tornado jets will be saved, but the Joint Strike Fighter and a modernised Eurofighter will form the basis of the RAF fire power and there will be extra money for unmanned planes

The air transport fleet will be upgraded with A400M and A330 aircraft, replacing the Tristar and VC-10 from 2013

Extra 12 Chinook helicopters to increase flexibility

The Army will have to cut up to 12,000 personnel, an increase on the 7,000 originally announced in October

40% of tanks and 35% of heavy artillery will be scrapped. One deployable brigade out of six will be lost

The navy will lose 5,000 personnel, taking numbers down to 30,000

It will get a new fleet of Astute-class nuclear-powered submarines

Its surface fleet will be cut from 23 to 19

The Ark Royal, launched in 1985, has been decommissioned

The construction of two new aircraft carriers, HMS Queen Elizabeth and HMS Prince of Wales, will go ahead. But one of them will be mothballed rather than entering service

The government says £750m ($1.2bn) will be saved over four years on the Trident nuclear deterrent missile system by cutting the number of warheads on each submarine from 48 to 40 and reducing the number of missile tubes from 12 to eight

Nuclear warhead stockpiles will be cut from 160 to less than 120

The final "main gate" spending decision on Trident will also be delayed until 2016 - after the next general election

The Ministry of Defence will lose 25,000 civilian staff by 2015

It will also have to renegotiate contracts with industry and sell-off "unnecessary" buildings and assets