Новости за 13.03.2023

One of MDA’s biggest investments in FY24 is for the Next Generation Interceptor, with $2.1 billion requested.

The plans include selling at least three Americans attack subs in the early 2030s and the UK, Australians producing a brand new sub, filled with American tech, in the 2040s.

The Defense Department’s research, development, test and evaluation budget request represents a 4 percent increase from FY23 levels, according to budget documents. 

The new budget request seeks the second Columbia-class ballistic missile submarine and two Virginia-class boats, but lacks amphibs, a point sure to irk lawmakers.

In comments to Breaking Defense, a Marine Corps spokesman forcefully pushed back against the new budget request’s failure to seek new amphibious warships.

“We’re very confident that [in] FY24 we’re able to maintain the investments that we need in order to deliver the modernization strategy that we’ve set forth,” Undersecretary of the Army Gabe Camarillo.

“There are hard kill and soft kill capabilities, if you will, that we’re funding,” Air Force Secretary Frank Kendall said with regards to offensive space weapons, but none that would created dangerous space debris.

A rolling list of budget stories coming out of the Defense Department as it releases details of its spending plans for FY24.

“The threat is racing to out pace us,” Air Force Secretary Frank Kendall told reporters in a budget pre-briefing on March 10.

Building off trends established by the fiscal 2023 budget, the service is asking for even more retirements in FY24 while seeking to launch new efforts like a program to field autonomous wingmen. “We’ve built a budget that we think has a reasonable balance between current-, midterm- and longer-term investments, if you will, or capabilities,” Air Force Secretary Frank Kendall said.

Air Force Secretary Frank Kendall said that if the development cost was lower, the Air Force may have found the space in its budget to fund the engine for its jets alone, “but at the level of several billion dollars to do that [engineering and manufacturing development], we couldn’t get there.”

“The purchase of these block 70 F-16s will essentially double the size of Bahrain’s F-16 fleet and represents a significant upgrade in their force size,” said senior Middle East and North Africa analyst at RANE Network Ryan Bohl.

Despite the previous Conservative Party government pledging to increase military spending to 3 percent GDP by 2030, Prime Minister Rishi Sunak stopped short of making any such commitment and has deferred a new defense spending review until after 2025.