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1 March 2011
Last updated at 11:39 ET
The Ministry of Defence says the first wave of redundancies in the armed forces will be made in September.
The MoD must make 11,000 job cuts and the RAF is the first service to set out where its share of 2,700 will be made.
Those on operations in Afghanistan in September will be exempt, but troops due back in April could lose their jobs, it has been announced.
The government says the cuts are necessary, but Labour says the handling of the news has been amateurish.
The RAF has identified the areas in which it will shed posts, including student pilots, weapons operators and ground staff.
Two Tornado squadrons will be disbanded - one based at Lossiemouth in Moray and the other at Marham.
Speaking at a Downing Street news conference, Mr Cameron said "incredibly difficult" decisions had to be made after the coalition had inherited a defence budget that had been overspent.
He added that, at the end of the cuts process, the UK would still have the fourth largest defence budget in the world
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The MoD must make 11,000 job cuts and the RAF is the first service to set out where its share of 2,700 will be made.
Those on operations in Afghanistan in September will be exempt, but troops due back in April could lose their jobs, it has been announced.
The government says the cuts are necessary, but Labour says the handling of the news has been amateurish.
The RAF has identified the areas in which it will shed posts, including student pilots, weapons operators and ground staff.
Two Tornado squadrons will be disbanded - one based at Lossiemouth in Moray and the other at Marham.
Speaking at a Downing Street news conference, Mr Cameron said "incredibly difficult" decisions had to be made after the coalition had inherited a defence budget that had been overspent.
He added that, at the end of the cuts process, the UK would still have the fourth largest defence budget in the world
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