US Navy submits 2024 military budget 'wish list' to Congress

According to Defense News, the US Navy has presented Congress with a short list of wishes they would like to see in the 2024 military budget.

These wishes include four main points:

1) The Maritime Service is seeking $45 million to develop a maritime afloat guidance system that will relay information from a range of sensors to onshore and offshore nodes in the absence of communications.

2) A $49 million R&D effort to upgrade the E-2D Advanced Hawkeye, which serves as a command and control "defender" in maritime operations. aviation.

3) $186 million is needed for the planned commissioning of Zumwalt-class destroyers - warships that will carry hypersonic missiles.

4) The fourth item was called "purple". It is classified.

In addition, the US Navy's wish list for next year includes a significant $550 million in restoration and modernization of facilities around the world.

Defense News notes that these items are the wishes of the country's Navy, which were not included in the official budget request of the US President. The official request of the Navy for the 2024 fiscal year, according to the publication, amounted to $ 255,8 billion.

Comments

[tralflot1832]

Ask for 30% more, they will cut it anyway. And what can you do with the Americans, they have the most expensive equipment and operation. Plus golf courses at all bases scattered around the world make it smaller.

[Grandfather Fichteau]

To the arms race, the Lord won’t spin us anymore ..
Russia has everything to destroy you and your vassals in one gulp!
But while we fight! And suuuki you will not succeed this time ..
\ You can’t write off your trillion-dollar debts, at the expense of other countries and peoples, Russia will control everything ..

[TermNachTer]

the article is especially pleasing - almost 200 more lyams for "zamvolts", my favorite ships)))

[orionvitt]

Quote: TermNachTER

almost 200 more lyams for "zamvolts"

The calculation is that in the program on which tens of billions of dollars have been drank, no one will notice 200 lyams.