DoD Acquisition Report 2019

[DrainBamage]

https://media.defense.gov/2019/Aug/...-ACQUISITION-REPORTS-(SARS)-DECEMBER-2018.PDF Always interesting because defense spending is dynamic and it gives a look into where the winds are blowing related to defense spending on major projects. Some of the more interesting jerks of the steering wheel:

Patriot PAC-3 + 73%, due to increase of missiles from 1,723 to 3,100

AIM-9X Block II +93%, due to increase (2,648 to 5,326) for the Navy and 2,957 missiles (3,352 to 6,309) for USAF. Obviously they are going all in on with lock-after-launch with datalink and high off boresight.

San Antonio Class Amphibious Transport Dock (LPD 17) +129% due to increase from 13 ships to 26 ships. That addition is the new Block II with the AN/SPY-6 radar.

Standard Missile SM-6 +32%, production rate speed up and increase in rounds from 1,800 to 2,331

Joint Air-to-Surface Standoff Missile (JASSM) +113% due primarily to an increase of 4,334 missiles from 2,866 to 7,200. JESUS FUCKING CHRIST! JASSM is far more capable than Tomahawk but god damn that's a shit-ton of missiles.

There is also a cost breach on LRASM with procurement ramping up significantly from FY 2019 to 2020, somewhat stretching the word "stopgap"

 

[Third Party]

https://media.defense.gov/2019/Aug/...-ACQUISITION-REPORTS-(SARS)-DECEMBER-2018.PDF Always interesting because defense spending is dynamic and it gives a look into where the winds are blowing related to defense spending on major projects. Some of the more interesting jerks of the steering wheel:

Patriot PAC-3 + 73%, due to increase of missiles from 1,723 to 3,100

AIM-9X Block II +93%, due to increase (2,648 to 5,326) for the Navy and 2,957 missiles (3,352 to 6,309) for USAF. Obviously they are going all in on with lock-after-launch with datalink and high off boresight.

San Antonio Class Amphibious Transport Dock (LPD 17) +129% due to increase from 13 ships to 26 ships. That addition is the new Block II with the AN/SPY-6 radar.

Standard Missile SM-6 +32%, production rate speed up and increase in rounds from 1,800 to 2,331

Joint Air-to-Surface Standoff Missile (JASSM) +113% due primarily to an increase of 4,334 missiles from 2,866 to 7,200. JESUS FUCKING CHRIST! JASSM is far more capable than Tomahawk but god damn that's a shit-ton of missiles.

There is also a cost breach on LRASM with procurement ramping up significantly from FY 2019 to 2020, somewhat stretching the word "stopgap"

Worked with some of these systems-could not keep up with orders and that was 3 years ago.

 

[DrainBamage]

That massive increase in JASSM order +4,334 is bigger than the entire existing Tomahawk stock, which was estimated to be about 4,000 in 2017. They used some for strikes, but also ordered 96 more to replace them. It's well known US is planning on ending production of Tomahawk, upgrading the remaining weapons to the newest variant with maritime strike capabilities.

USAF must have been pleased by results of that volley of JASSMs they chucked at Syria.

 

[DrainBamage]

Also related, LRASM is set to go operational with US Navy by end of this month. It was first rigged up to USAF B-1s last December as stopgap maritime bomber deterrent in Pacific, but will now finally be available to carrier air wings on F-18E/F. This would be the first new antiship missile employed by US Navy since SLAM-ER debut almost 20 years ago, which in turn was based on Harpoon from over 40 years ago.

 

[whitehall]

Only in America. How can there be any secrets left when the DOD budget is out there for the world to see?

 

[DrainBamage]

Things that are secret enough aren't out there for the world to see. It isn't like they had publicly listed budget line items for F-117s and B-2s before the lifted the curtain on their existence.

 

[whitehall]

And yet the CIA still has a secret budget after their failure of 9-11

 

[DrainBamage]

I'll take non sequitur for 400 Alex.