US Defense Spending - Announced By President Trump 23 Mar 18

[Heathrow Harry]

I See they passed the Budget last night but haven't seen any detail on the FINAL APPROVED military numbers

Anyone got them?

[RAFEngO74to09]

90 x F-35 - $10.2 Billion
15 x KC-46 - $2.9 Billion
24 x F/A-18E/F - $1.8 Billion
10 x P-8 - $1.7 Billion
56 x UH-60 - $1.1 Billion

Nuclear systems upgrades
Missile defense - co-operation with Israel and others - $705M

Also:

34 x new ships - $23.8 Billion
85 x Abrams MBT upgrades - $1.1 Billion

Total $654.6 Billion

Announcement in full here - SecDef from 13:45 minutes - President Trump defense aspects from 17:15 minutes:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sAexAaLPQXQ

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It's OK, they'll make the Chinese, North Koreans and Russians pay for it:E