Sunday, February 18, 2018

These Are Some Of The Planes, Ships, And Missiles That The Pentagon Wants To Buy

2000 lbs GBU-31 Joint Direct Attack Munitions (JDAM) are transported to the flight deck of USS Harry S. Truman (CVN-75). US Navy

Business Insider: Trump's defense budget is a wishlist for a massive military buildup — these are the planes, ships, and missiles he wants

President Donald Trump's fiscal budget request for 2019 includes $686 billion for defense spending.

While Trump has pushed for a larger military since he was campaigning for president, Defense Secretary Jim Mattis has said more recently that the "real growth" in the military buildup begins with the now-unveiled fiscal 2019 budget.

With this behemoth amount, the military is setting up contracts that will help the US fight the next war against near peer threats. This includes vehicles, aircraft, ships, and hundreds of thousands of munitions, much of which was used up in the fight against ISIS.

Here are a couple purchases that stand out:

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WNU Editor: Missile defense, nuclear weapons, etc. .... now that is another list.

4 comments:

jac said...

Well, we have to catch up after 8 years of Obama destruction of our forces.

Anonymous said...

Better spend the money on AI research than bombs

fazman said...

The threat looms here and now, AI can wait.

Anonymous said...

Yeah yeah I'll remind you in 10 years, then you'll be like "obama that f***er should have invested in AI" lol