“Pentagon Puts Priority on Replacing Munitions in 2024 Budget”
“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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“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
Notable non-munitions procurement requests by the Army, Navy and Air Force include:
• 91 AMPV Armored Multi-Purpose Vehicles built by BAE Systems Plc, which replaced the Army workhorse M113 personnel carrier
• 48 Air Force F-35s built by Lockheed Martin Corp.
• 42 AH-64E upgraded Apache attack helicopters built by Boeing Co.
• 34 M1A2 tanks to be upgraded built by General Dynamics Corp.
• 33 Mobile Protected Firepower light tanks built by General Dynamics
• 24 Boeing Co. F-15EX fighters
• 15 additional Boeing KC-46 refueling tankers
• 10 National Security Space Launch missions for military satellites, which have pitted Elon Musk’s SpaceX against the Boeing-Lockheed Martin United Launch Alliance
• 8 Navy Conventional Prompt Strike ship-launched hypersonic missiles built by Lockheed Martin
• 7 MH-139A Grey Wolf helicopters built by Boeing, designed to guard US ICBM silos
• Two Navy Constellation-class FFG frigates built by Fincantieri/Marinette Marine of Marinette, Wisconsin, up from one this year
• Two Virginia-class submarines built by General Dynamics and Huntington Ingalls,
• Two DDG-51 Arleigh Burke class destroyers built by General Dynamics and Huntington Ingalls”
“A Russian MT-LB carrying 100mm ammunition for the MT-12 Rapira AT gun was destroyed by the Ukrainian 59th Brigade using a drone-dropped munition near Staromykhailivka, #Donetsk Oblast.”
https://twitter.com/UAWeapons/status/1634593353303052288
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Tbh if you support Russia and you live in America you are not a patriot. In the slightest. Rather, you’re a dumbass that has forgotten how much of a realistic threat the USSR once posed when Americans had to do duck and cover drills every single day at school. F k Russia.
https://twitter.com/_leader_of_men_/status/1635133153772961792?cxt=HHwWgIDQ8ZS8lLEtAAAA