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Budget Has Clue About Warhead for Possible Nuclear Tipped Sea Launched Cruise Missile

Tuesday, December 17th, 2019

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Budget Has Clue About Warhead for Possible Nuclear Tipped Sea Launched Cruise Missile

The Air Launched Cruise Missile (ALCM) is the predecessor to the eventual Long Range Standoff (LRSO) weapon. Photo: Air Force.

Congress wants the Department of Energy to slide about $5.5 million from the W80 cruise-missile warhead’s maintenance budget into a Pentagon study focused on a design for a nuclear-tipped Sea Launch Cruise Missile, according to the compromise 2020 spending bill that would fund the agency through September. The Trump administration proposed studying the Sea Launched Cruise Missile in the 2018 Nuclear Posture Review released a year into President Donald Trump’s first term. Neither the Pentagon nor the DoE's National Nuclear…

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