21. Algeria has the largest defence budget in Africa. 22. India increased its defence budget as it sought to acquire more state of the art equipment. 23. From the late 1970s to the late 1980s, defence budgets in South Africa were raised exponentially. 24. Australian annual defence budget -about $ 110 billion. 25. The Royal Navy, being the first line of defence, received the major proportion of the defence budget . 26. However, it was new and often lacked influential'friends'in the competition for a share of limited defence budgets . 27. In 2010, Belgium's defence budget totaled ?3.95 billion ( representing 1.12 % of its GDP ). 28. In the 2000 Russian defence budget the ship received more funding and the work on the ship continued. 29. It had an annual spend of almost ? billion, representing over 20 per cent of the Defence budget . 30. The answer can only lie in higher defence budgets and in smarter investment, using these budgets more effectively.
