The US Navy’s proposed fiscal year 2024 budget request includes funding for two Constellation-class guided-missile frigates. (Fincantieri Marinette Marine)
The US Navy (USN) fiscal year (FY) 2024 budget request includes USD14.3 billion for surface combatants, including funding to bolster guided-missile destroyer (DDG) and frigate (FFG) numbers, according to Pentagon budget documents released on 13 March.
The FY 2024 proposal includes about USD4.8 billion for two DDG 51 Flight III Arleigh Burke-class destroyers, compared with USD8.2 billion for three ships in FY 2023.
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Seen in Afghan Air Force service before the fall of Kabul to the Taliban in 2021, the MD 530F Cayuse Warrior will be the basis of MD Helicopters’ future sales campaign for new military customers. (US Air Force)
MD Helicopters (MDH) is to consolidate the different platforms it had previously marketed to military customers, focusing instead on upgraded MD 500 and new-build MD 530 airframes only.
Policy changes
The Hungarian Ministry of Defence is attempting to move the Hungarian Armed Forces away from the previously Soviet Union-acquired artillery of years gone by. The plan is for considerable changes in the country’s inventory, with General Imre Porkolab claiming Hungary’s defence will be one of the strongest by 2030, meeting the 2% of spending NATO has set out.
Hungary seeks change from the outdated Russian equipment as they look to jump a generation in development, with technology leading these developments.
An Australian Collins-class submarine, HMAS
Sheean
, arrives for a logistics port visit in Hobart. The class is expected to be retired closer to 2040, when Australia is expected to operate its nuclear-powered boats.
(Australian Defence Force via Get)
The leaders of Australia, the UK, and the US have unveiled a phased ‘Optimised Pathway’ that will equip Canberra with two nuclear-powered submarine (SSN) classes over the next two decades.
The Swedish Defence Materiel Administration (Försvarets materielverk-FMV) has tested a new battle management system (BMS) for the country’s armed forces.
The field verification test of the new system, also called BMS 3.1.2, was executed last week by the Swedish Armed Forces’ soldiers at P4 in Skövde, Västergötland, Sweden.
Currently, the BMS is undergoing a series of verification and field tests.
Development of the new BMS version is the result of a separate basic training initiative. The effort required FMV to install a new command support system, called LSS Mark 2.
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