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Air Force Officials Defend LRSO Funding Spike

Alissa Tabirian

Monday, June 5th, 2017

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Top U.S. Air Force officials are standing behind a significant increase in funding the service is proposing for its controversial Long Range Stand-Off (LRSO) nuclear cruise missile for fiscal 2018.There seems to be “broad bipartisan support for LRSO,” Gen. Stephen Wilson, Air Force vice chief of staff, said on May 25 at a Mitchell Institute for Aerospace Studies breakfast on Capitol Hill.The Air Force's latest budget request would ramp up development work on the program, granting it $451 million –…

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