etimegev and smujsmith,
Your promotion of UKIP as "the" party of defence conveniently ignores the fact that whilst Labour and the Tories have both committed to a continuous at sea deterrent force of 4 submarines, the LibDems AND UKIP have not and would examine whether the force could be reduced to 3 submarines.
Hardly the stuff of a party that "seems to understand the needs of a nations armed forces" eh?