US DoD FY 23 Budget Requests

[RAFEngO74to09]

Just some extracted highlights - link to full request below:

Nuclear Enterprise Modernization to recapitalize all three legs of the nuclear triad ($34.4 billion). Investments Include:


COLUMBIA Class Ballistic Missile Submarine - $6.3 billion
B-21 Long Range Strike Bomber - $5 billion
Ground Based Strategic Deterrent (GBSD) - $3.6 billion
Long-Range Stand-Off (LRSO) Missile - $1 billion

Lethal Air Forces ($56.5 billion). Investments include:


61 F-35 Joint Strike Fighter - $11 billion
24 F-15EX - $2.8 billion
15 KC-46 Pegasus - $2.9 billion
NGAD (Air Force) $1.7 billion

Modernized Naval Forces ($40.8 billion). Investments include:


2 DDG-51 ARLEIGH BURKE Class Destroyers - $5.6 billion
1 Frigate (FFG(X)) - $1.3 billion
2 VIRGINIA class Submarines - $7.3 billion

Combat Effective Ground Forces ($12.6 billion). Investments include:


72 Armored Multi-Purpose Vehicles - $381 million
74 Amphibious Combat Vehicles - $631 million
3,721 Joint Light Tactical Vehicles - $1.1 billion

Missile Defeat and Defense ($24.7 billion). Investments include:


Ground-Based Midcourse (GMD) and Improved Homeland Defense/Next Generation Interceptors (NGI) - $2.6 billion
Terminal High Altitude Area Defense (THAAD) Ballistic Missile Defense - $335 million
PATRIOT Advanced Capability (PAC-3) Missile Segment Enhancement - $1 billion

https://www.defense.gov/News/Releases/Release/Article/2980014/the-department-of-defense-releases-the-presidents-fiscal-year-2023-defense-budg/the-department-of-defense-releases-the-presidents-fiscal-year-2023-defense-budg/

[Asturias56]

Probably going to get varied to a lot more anti tank missiles, MANPADS and drones following recent events....................

[rattman]

Budget was nickle and dimed before ukraine kicked off

[RAFEngO74to09]

More detail here - some huge cuts - including HH-60W Jolly Green II planned fleet buy reduced by 34%:

Air Force Wants To Retire 33 F-22s, Buy More F-15EXs In New Budget (thedrive.com) (https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/44954/air-force-wants-to-retire-33-f-22s-buy-more-f-15exs-in-new-budget)

[Alabama boy]

The F22's are the early standard used only for training . The USAF decided it would be too expensive to upgrade them to full operational standard and would rather spend the savings on the New Generation fighter under development. More interesting is their request to retire 15 E3 AWACS s by the end of next year, probably to make savings to fund an interim replacement which the E7 is the front runner. If granted by Congress it will reduce the USAF fleet of AWACS to about 15 aircraft probably the Block 40 upgraded aircraft. Its interesting that the USAF have not completely abandoned their long planned replacement system likely to be an amalgam of space based sensors networked across multiple domains and platforms. as they believe the large manned aircraft are becoming more vulnerable to counter measures.

[Asturias56]

Looks like an awful lot of unproven kit in those requests...............