U.S. Air Force Airmen monitor computers in support of the Advanced Battle Management System (ABMS) Onramp 2, Sept 2, 2020 at Joint Base Andrews, Maryland. (Department of Defense)
The US Department of Defense (DoD) is seeking a USD1.7 billion increase in proposed funding for command, control, computers, cyber, intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance (C4ISR) accounts for fiscal year (FY) 2024.
The USD14.5 billion requested for C4ISR coffers in FY 2024, compared to the department’s USD12.
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The U.S. Air Force’s 2024 Fiscal Year budget request includes plans to divest 310 aircraft, while acquiring just 95 new ones. The service is looking to make substantial new investments in next-generation capabilities and argues that it needs to keep retiring old platforms to free up resources in support of these critical modernization efforts.
The total proposed Fiscal Year 2024 budget for the Department of the Air Force, which includes the U.S. Space Force, is 215.1 billion, excluding so-called “pass-through” funding.
According to official Iranian media, military cooperation between Iran and Russia has reached a new level with the conclusion of a contract for Iran to purchase Russian-made Sukhoi Su-35 fighters.
Air Force Hit by Sanctions Iran’s aging fleet of planes has struggled to get spare parts needed to keep its fighters in the air. During the 1980-1988 Iran-Iraq war, Tehran announced that it had begun looking for “countries to acquire fighter jets” to rebuild its fleet.
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The fighting that has followed Russia’s full-scale Russian invasion of Ukraine has provided no shortage of throwbacks to the warfare of the bygone ages. On the technology side, we’ve seen ancient machine guns wheeled out and balloons make a return to combat, while the conditions that have been encountered in the east of the country, especially, have at times resembled World War One trench warfare, with all the attendant mud and brutality.
The UK will have committed as much in the value of military support to Ukraine from 2022-2024 as it aims to increase defence spending over the next 24 months, with an expectation that Kyiv will have received assistance valued at £4.6bn by the end of the coming financial year.
Setting out the new Integrated Review (IR) refresh on 13 March, the UK Government stated that UK military support to Ukraine was valued at £2.3bn in 2022/23, with a commitment to maintain ‘at least the same level of support in 2023/24’.
The US Navy’s proposed FY 2024 budget requests funding for two Virginia-class attack submarines. (US Navy)
The US Navy (USN) is requesting about USD48.1 billion for shipbuilding and marine systems in its fiscal year (FY) 2024 budget proposal, released on 13 March.
The largest single category, by amount, for that request is USD18.6 billion for submarine combatants, according to budget documents released that day.
Anchoring that request is the USD10.8 billion being proposed for the acquisition of two Virginia-class attack submarines (SSN 774s), or about USD3.
The US Navy’s FY 2024 budget request includes the first Columbia-class submarine acquisition. (US Navy)
The US Navy (USN) department is requesting about USD255.8 billion for fiscal year (FY) 2024, or about 4.5% more than the USD244.7 billion in funding enacted for FY 2023, according to navy officials and budget documents released on 13 March.
The navy department’s total FY 2024 request includes about USD53.2 billion for the US Marine Corps (USMC) and USD202.5 billion for the USN, compared with USD51.9 billion enacted in FY 2023 for the USMC and USD192.9 billion for the navy.
(U.S Air Force photo by 1st Lt Savanah Bray)
The U.S. Air Force’s proposed budget for the 2024 Fiscal Year includes a request for funds to buy 24 more F-15EX Eagle II fighter jets. This would bring the total planned fleet size up to 104 aircraft. Last year, the service had proposed purchasing just 80 Eagle IIs, down from the original plan to acquire at least 144 of them. The War Zone just recently highlighted how a fleet of only 80 F-15EXs would make little practical sense.
After years of trying to identify and neutralize disinformation, now SOCOM wants to spy on audiences by monitoring internet devices.
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Representatives from the Dutch Armed Forces addressed the Future Soldier Technology (FST) conference on 8 March, where they conveyed a formidable challenge that the Defence Materiel Organisation (DMO) currently face.
The Netherlands currently has twenty years’ worth of outdated solider equipment. This problem is symptomatic of the need for a new culture to introduce innovation in their supply chains.
This strategy will allow the DMO to acquire and deliver the best equipment for the readiness and operations of their dismounted soldiers.