A new American Ford-class ship costs $13bn-more than the annual defence budget of Poland or Pakistan.

一艘新的美国福特级军舰耗资130亿美元，超过了波兰和巴基斯坦的年度国防预算。

The debt crisis has forced many countries to cut their defence budgets, often in an unco-ordinated manner.

欧债危机下，欧洲各国不得不削减军事开支，而其削减幅度常常有失偏颇。

But until Congress approves the new defence budget, many programmes are funded at last year's price levels, which fail to offset costlier material and manpower.

但在国会批准新的国防预算之前，许多项目的资金都是按去年的价格水平提供的，这无法抵消更昂贵的材料和人力。

Russia's assault on Ukraine, combined with strategic fears about China, have pushed up America's proposed defence budget for next year, including for procurement of new firepower.

俄罗斯对乌克兰的进攻， 加上对中国的战略担忧，已经推高了美国明年提出的国防预算， 包括采购新火力。

As defence budgets across Europe decline to dangerously low levels, a much tougher approach to culling costly-to-maintain legacy weapons is needed; so too is more pooling of essential military infrastructure of the kind envisaged by last year's Anglo-French defence treaty.

鉴于欧洲国防预算已经缩减到危险的低水平，选用维修费高昂的现有武器时要有更严格的手段，同样的，类似去年英法防卫条约中设想的那种必要的军事设施要更多的共享。