Video: David Cameron: defence budget 'not exempt from difficult decisions' Yes, we have had to make difficult decisions in terms of reducing the size of the army, the navy and the air force. But when you stop and think about the future equipment programmes that our services are going to have, I think we can be really proud of what we are getting in this country. He claimed that the armed forces would still have the best equipment in the world, and he could look at "our armed forces in the eye and be pretty proud of what we are going to deliver."