About £5 billion for drones is a small share of the quoted £298 billion defence plan over four years. The comparison uses a stated spending target of £100 billion annually. The estimated shortfall is given as £108 billion, although the quoted totals do not reconcile exactly with that estimate. Drone funding accounts for roughly 1.7 percent of planned defence spending. The criticism concerns the scale of the allocation behind claims that drones represent the future.
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Drone spending within the wider defence budget
A roughly £5 billion drone allocation amounts to about 1.7 percent of the quoted four-year defence plan, prompting criticism of its scale.