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Air Force Official Defends LRSO, Says Funding ‘Not the Main Issue’

Pat Host

Friday, July 22nd, 2016

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Air Force Official Defends LRSO, Says Funding ‘Not the Main Issue’

The ALCM. Photo: Air Force.

Funding will not be a problem in President Barack Obama administration’s plan to field a new Long-Range Standoff (LRSO) nuclear cruise missile, Lt. Gen. Jack Weinstein, Air Force deputy chief of staff for strategic deterrence and nuclear integration, said Thursday.Obama’s fiscal year 2017 budget funds all of the Air Force’s nuclear modernization programs, including the LRSO, Weinstein said at an Air Force Association breakfast. He said this is significant particularly because not all the budgets the president submitted during his…

Congress

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Army

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