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The unfounded priorities list has made its way out for FY26 and it includes some interesting requests:
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- Navy wants $1.4 billion to award the F/A-XX and proceed to next phase of development.
- Air Force wants money to expand AMRAAM production to 2,400 units per year, expand LRASM production to 2,200 units per year, acquire the AGM-183A ARRW (not cancelled after all) and expand AIM-260 JATM production.
- National Gaurd wants to buy more F-15EX and F-35A.
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I am just curious why National Guard needs F-15EX and F-35A. If US doesn't invade other countries, no other countries will invade US. The use of National Guard is to keep local area safe if there will be any disaster like earthquake, flooding, and etc.
Barely related, but I am curious why US National Guards do not maintain specialized paratrooper formations trained as smokejumpers? Wildfires seem to be a pretty big issue in the US. I would imagine this would alleviate strain on civilian resources during intense fire seasons.
That is correct. I remember the old days a father and his two sons were all in National Guard, and they were sent to Iraq battlefield at the same time.
quitpathetic. 25% of ALL patriot.
And the AMRAAM missiles production rate is only 1600/year.
If we considar that russia ONLY make 500 shahed/day, and one shahed needs one AMRAAM, then it is clear the whole USA production enought for three days of air defence against Russia ONLY.
Reason of these complicated routes.
Force the defenders to use long range missiles,or keep dozens of airplanes in aur at any point of time.
say if they need to take done only 50 shahed with long range missiles then good, the whole USA yearly production enoguth for one month.
But I seriously doubt that 50 enought.
Few say that this is the for the USA, playing the same role as Britain .
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They use slave labour for that, namely convicts.
Pentagon policy chief’s rogue decisions have irked US allies and the Trump administration
Even for an administration with a knack for moving fast and breaking things, Elbridge Colby’s moves at the Pentagon have caused frustration and friction.
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When the British defense team came to the Pentagon in June and spoke about the U.K.’s decision to send an aircraft carrier to Asia on a routine deployment, Colby interjected with a brusque comment.
“He basically asked them, ‘Is it too late to call it back?’” said the person familiar with Trump administration dynamics. “Because we don’t want you there.” A second person familiar with the meeting confirmed this account.
The British team on the other side of the table “were just shocked,” the first person added. “He was basically saying, ‘You have no business being in the Indo-Pacific.’”
Colby has also irked allies by pushing them too hard to boost defense spending — or telling them to simply get out of America’s way. “DOD has been telling a European partner that we don’t need the Europeans to be doing anything [in the Indo-Pacific],” said one U.S. official familiar with the conversations.
It's a shame his enemies are trying to spin it this way. He's actually one of the few relatively sensible people in there. Very much hated him before, but he seems to be showing a lot more sense this time around.