An EA-18G Growler launches from the aircraft carrier Carl Vinson. A Senate subcommittee added $1.3 billion for a dozen of the aircraft. (MC2 John Philip Wagner/ / Navy)
US Senate Panel Proposes Keeping A-10, 11 Aircraft Carriers With $547.9B Defense Bill -- Defense News
WASHINGTON — A US Senate panel on Tuesday approved nearly $550 billion in military spending as part of a bill that would keep alive weapon systems the Pentagon wanted to retire.
The chamber’s Appropriations Defense subcommittee unanimously approved legislation that would give the Pentagon $489.6 billion in base spending and $58.3 billion in war funding. It would block a long list of weapon system retirement proposals or Pentagon plans to not purchase systems next year to save money.
In short, the proposed $547.9 billion total figure is yet another victory for the US defense sector, which has long warned it will see a financial hit due to sequestration.
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Military And Intelligence News Briefs -- July 22, 2014
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U.S. military's new foe -- Sharon E. Burke, CNN
As US draws curtain on combat role, resilient Taliban plans patient comeback -- Heath Druzin, Stars and Stripes
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