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Pentagon budget 2022: Proposed USN plan continues carrier support
Despite recent calls by the US Navy (USN) leadership to review the future of the USN’s large-deck aircraft carrier fleet, the service is moving ahead with plans for its...Full story -
Pentagon budget 2022: US Navy submits flat topline funding request
The proposed Fiscal year (FY) 2022 Pentagon budget proposal requests USD211.7 billion for the US Navy (USN) Department, which represents an increase of USD3.8 billion,...Full story -
Pentagon budget 2022: DoD requests less aircraft and related systems spending
The US Department of Defense (DoD) is requesting USD52.4 billion for aircraft and related systems in its fiscal year (FY) 2022 budget request, which would represent a...Full story -
Pentagon budget 2022: Aegis Ashore requests USD43.2 million, Polish construction delays continue
The US Missile Defense Agency’s (MDA’s) Aegis Ashore missile interceptor system is slated to receive USD43.2 million in fiscal year 2022 (FY 2022) to develop...Full story -
Pentagon budget 2022: MDA seeks USD247.9 million to counter hypersonic weapons
The US Missile Defense Agency (MDA) has requested USD247.9 million in fiscal year (FY) 2022 to develop defences against hypersonic speed weapons as Russia and China have...Full story -
Pentagon budget 2022: Missile Defense Agency budget ticks lower at USD8.9 billion
The White House’s proposed budget for the US Missile Defense Agency (MDA) continues a slow downward trend for the agency, with USD8.917 billion requested in fiscal year...Full story -
Pentagon budget 2022: MDA seeks USD1.733 billion for strategic missile defence programme
The US Missile Defense Agency (MDA) is requesting about USD1.733 billion in fiscal year 2022 (FY 2022) to improve its strategic missile defence system, including...Full story -
Pentagon budget 2022: MDA requests USD292.8 million for better awareness in space
The US Missile Defense Agency (MDA) in fiscal year 2022 (FY 2022) requested USD292.8 million to integrate its Space-based Kill Assessment (SKA) system, meant to report...Full story -
Pentagon budget 2022: US Air Force requests USD212.8 billion, plans major aircraft divestments
The US Air Force’s (USAF’s) USD212.8 billion budget request for fiscal year (FY) 2022 would be USD8.8 billion more than the USD204 billion in funding provided in FY 2021...Full story -
Pentagon budget 2022: Army offers peek combat vehicle cuts
When the Biden administration released its fiscal year 2022 (FY 2022) budget request on 28 May, absent were the Department of Defense’s projected spending forecast for...Full story -
Pentagon budget 2022: Army requests USD173 billion, kills seven programmes
The US Army’s fiscal year 2022 (FY 2022) budget will be slashed by USD3.6 billion over this year’s discretionary spending levels if the Pentagon gets its way. This...Full story -
Pentagon budget 2022: Handheld, manpack radio procurement accelerated under spending blueprint
Pentagon officials are escalating investments in procurement and continued development of its family of handheld and manpack radio systems, setting aside USD803 million...Full story -
Pentagon budget 2022: Hypersonic weapons would get USD3.8 billion boost
Hypersonic speed strike weapons remain a top development priority in the Pentagon’s fiscal year (FY) 2022 budget. The department requested USD3.8 billion for several...Full story -
Pentagon budget 2022: US Army cancels Multi-Function EW programme
US Army leaders have decided to cancel the service’s Multi-Function Electronic Warfare (MFEW) programme, as part of a slate of service divestitures across its entire...Full story -
Pentagon budget 2022: US Army eyes tactical level C4ISR investment
US Army officials are eyeing significant investment upticks in its tactical-level command, control, communications and intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance...Full story -
Brazil looks to receive fewer KC-390 airlifters
The Brazilian Air Force (FAB) revealed on 26 May that it is to enter negotiations with Embraer to review the total number of KC-390 Millennium multimission transport...Full story -
Chinese MND warns US Indo-Pacific strategy will ‘only create antagonism and chaos'
Sharp criticism was levelled at the Australia, Japan, and the United States by Chinese Ministry of National Defence (MND) spokesperson Senior Colonel Tan Kefei at the...Full story -
Taiwanese navy completes trials of ‘Sea Sword II' air-defence missile
The Republic of China Navy (RoCN) has announced that it recently completed trials and evaluations of the new medium-range Hai Chien II (‘Sea Sword II') air-defence...Full story -
Seoul, Manila continue talks on meeting Philippine Navy's future submarine requirements
South Korea and the Philippines have continued co-operation talks aimed at meeting the Philippine Navy's (PN's) future submarine requirements.Full story -
Royal New Zealand Navy issues RFI to replace RHIBs
Babcock NZ has issued a request for information (RFI) on behalf of the New Zealand Defence Force (NZDF) for the replacement of its rigid-hull inflatable boats (RHIBs).Full story