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The long-delayed Navy Fiscal Year 2022 budget request submitted to Congress May 28 reflects modest increases in several areas, but overall shows no significant changes, either in weapons procurement or readiness accounts. The service is asking for eight ships, but only four are combatants – two submarines, one destroyer and one frigate – while the […] ....
Pentagon officials want to cut almost $3 billion worth of weapon systems and equipment in their current stockpile in order to help pay for their ambitious plans to invest in new technologies like hypersonics and artificial intelligence so they can be ready for the battlefields of the future. ....
An Airborne Mine Neutralization System (AMNS) being lowered from a USN helicopter. (Photo: USN/Ron Newsome) AMNS neutralises moored mines or mines that have been laid on the seabed. The USN is acquiring more Airborne Mine Neutralization System (AMNS) units from Raytheon Missiles and Defense under a $16.79 million contract modification, the DoD announced on 26 May. The modification includes options that, if exercised, would raise the cumulative value of the AMNS contract to $68.55 million. Work is expected to be completed by March 2024 or March 2027 if all options are exercised, the DoD added. The AMNS is designed to explode bottom and moored mines by using an expendable device. ....