Bloomberg: Pentagon Puts Priority on Replacing Munitions in 2024 Budget
(Bloomberg) -- The Pentagon’s $170 billion procurement request for the new fiscal year focuses on replacing munitions supplied to Ukraine as well as well as weapons like long-range missiles, which would be necessary in a conflict with China, according to an internal budget document.
The Defense Department will ask for $76.8 billion for the Navy and Marines, with $32.8 billion in new ship construction; $61 billion for the Air Force, which includes the US Space Force: and $24.4 billion for the Army, according to the official P-1 summary document obtained by Bloomberg News.
The companion R-1 research and development document requests $145 billion overall, with $46 billion to the Air Force, $27 billion to the Navy and $15.7 billion the Army. The documents are to be released Monday by the Pentagon as part of its detailed disclosure of the budget request for the fiscal year beginning Oct. 1.
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Update: Thanks to Ukraine, Pentagon eyeing multi-year munition buys in FY24 (Breaking Defense).
WNU Editor: From Bloomberg: Highlights of the munitions requests include:
$951 million for 550 Joint Air-To-Surface Standoff Missiles made by Lockheed Martin Corp.$928 million for 831 Navy/Air Force Amraam air-to-air missiles from Raytheon Technologies Corp.$886 million to buy 5,016 GMLRS rockets from Lockheed Martin.$639 million to buy 91 Navy Long-Range Anti-Ship Missiles from Lockheed Martin$400 million to buy a new version of the Stinger called M-Shorad$308 million for 78 MK-48 advanced torpedoes from Lockheed Martin$199 million to buy 541 Javelin anti-armor missiles made by Raytheon-Lockheed and lionized by Ukrainian forces for their lethal efficacy against Russian tanks$179 million to buy from Lockheed Martin 28 additional Himars mobile rocket systems.
4 comments:
We sent that to Ukraine? The next war we fight is going to be hell. China and Russia will be arming our enemies to the teeth.
Russian troll ^
We didn’t send all this to Ukraine. We sent much older systems. From the neocon perspective we needed to buy this stuff anyway and meanwhile we got to kill some Russians with the old stuff before it expired and got tossed into the burn pit.
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