Biden’s plans to properly rearm the United States, all the details
Joe Biden has proposed a defense budget of over $ 813 billion. Boost on research, missile defense and shipbuilding, while F-35 purchases slow down. All the details
US President Joe Biden has proposed $ 813.3 billion defense spending to Congress within the budget for fiscal year 2023. The non-binding proposal will be published next Monday and – he writes the New York Times – is affected by the new international security context created by the Russian aggression against Ukraine, which began over a month ago.
WHAT'S IN BIDEN'S DEFENSE PROPOSAL
Biden's figure represents an increase of $ 31 billion, or 4 percent, over military spending in 2022. Of the 813 billion, 773 will go to the Department of Defense (or Pentagon); 40 billion, on the other hand, will be distributed among various government agencies such as the FBI and the Department of Defense for specific and defense-related programs.
More specifically, in the proposal there are 4.1 billion to the Department of Defense for the research and development of defensive capabilities.
Almost 5 billion will instead go to the creation of a missile alert system from space, while about 2 billion will be dedicated to an interceptor missile to protect the American territory from threats from hostile countries such as North Korea or Iran. The European Deterrence Iniative, a Pentagon initiative to maintain an American deterrence against Russia on the European continent, will see funding grow by 360 million to 4.2 billion.
Innovative weapons such as hypersonic ones – missiles capable of exceeding the speed of sound and at the same time being maneuverable – will be allocated 130 billion dollars: Washington's goal is to guarantee technological and military primacy over China (above all) and Russia.
SLOW DOWN ON F-35
Biden's proposal slows down the purchases of F-35s by the Department of Defense: they are the fifth generation multi-role and stealth fighters produced by Lockheed Martin. The leaders of the Air Force, the US Air Force, have complained about the slow pace of technological improvements in aircraft hardware.
Compared to the 85 requested last fiscal year, the Pentagon is expected to acquire only 61 F-35s in the next budget. However, it is possible that Congress, during the budget approval process, will increase the figure.
The Air Force has shown interest in developing the MH-139A helicopters, the military version of Leonardo's AW139s .
SHIPS, SPACE AND NUCLEAR
Among the main priorities of Biden's proposal for defense are shipbuilding, space (there is competition in these domains between America and China) and the modernization of nuclear weapons via ballistic missile submarines, fighter-bombers and rocket missiles. Earth.
This is a machine translation from Italian language of a post published on Start Magazine at the URL https://www.startmag.it/mondo/stati-uniti-813-miliardi-difesa/ on Tue, 29 Mar 2022 13:23:02 +0000.