Israel to buy new corvettes, ‘hundreds’ of JLTVs
Israel has not specified how much each deal is worth, but in a statement described the two packages as a “multi-billion Shekel” expenditure.
Israel has not specified how much each deal is worth, but in a statement described the two packages as a “multi-billion Shekel” expenditure.
"We don’t have 20 years to do this," said Rep. Rob Wittman. "We need to be modernizing our yards now...the upgrades need to be done at a faster pace."
Lawmakers “are frustrated by the Navy's last decade of cost overruns on new programs, programs being late, and technology being the thing that holds them up,” Bryan Clark of the Hudson Institute says.
UPDATED with McCain praise WASHINGTON: The Navy needs a bigger fleet of smaller ships than envisioned in its official Force Structure Assessment, says a congressionally-chartered study from the Center for Strategic & Budgetary Assessments. CSBA emphatically agrees with the Navy that the focus needs to shift from day-to-day counter-terrorism and presence operations to deterring (and if need be, […]