The 2021 budget request also makes major reductions in the tracked M2 Bradley and the wheeled Joint Light Tactical Vehicle, as well as counter-IED programs.
By Sydney J. Freedberg Jr.“While China is on track to reach a 420-ship by 2035, we are struggling to stay on track with our 355-ship Navy shipbuilding plan,” Rep. Rob Wittman says in an email. “A decrease in the shipbuilding account is the opposite direction we need to be going if we are to compete.”
By Paul McLeary“When the services say that 2022 is really the year of NDS implementation, they are putting lipstick on a pig,” says one analyst.
By Paul McLeary and Sydney J. Freedberg Jr.