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Bill Greenwalt worked hand in glove with the late Sen. Sen. McCain as he tried — and repeatedly failed — to cleanse the defense budget of huge amounts of what isn’t really defense spending — cancer research, health care, grocery stores and the list goes on and on. If you strip this from the defense budget how much is America really spending on its military and how does that compare with what China is spending? Read on! The Editor. Adam Smith, chairman of the House Armed Services Committee is under pressure from within his party to hold down defense spending, so he has advocated focusing less on the defense top line and more on the value of what the U.S. gets from its defense budget. Since the Chinese threat is the driving threat for the Biden Administration, focusing on value for the fiscal 2022 budget may render some surprising answers and implications when comparing the value of US vs. the PRC’s defense spending. New data indicates that, despit
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Sydney J. Freedberg Jr. on May 12, 2021 at 12:38 PM
Launch of Army-Navy Common-Hypersonic Glide Body (C-HGB) in Hawaii on March 19, 2020.
Conversely, in
China’s nightmare scenario, where US allies
do let American missile units use their soil, LRHW batteries in Taiwan, Japan, or South Korea could strike targets more than one thousand miles inside Chinese territory. What’s more, the Navy version of the LRHW, called Conventional Prompt Strike, could launch from submarines or ships at sea anywhere in the Pacific.
“The Long Range Hypersonic Weapon provides a capability at a distance greater than 2,775 km,” an Army spokesman told me. That’s about 1,725 miles – at a minimum. The “greater than” leaves the door wide open for a significantly longer range than that.
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