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Navy’s 2022 Budget Requests $3 Billion Less Aircraft Procurement As Programs End

Navy’s 2022 Budget Requests $3 Billion Less Aircraft Procurement As Programs End
Orbital ATK AARGM (AGM-88E)lLaunched from U.S. Navy F/A-18D Hornet. (Photo: Orbital ATK)

The Navy’s fiscal year 2022 budget request would decrease the service’s new aircraft procurement spending to $16.5 billion, down from $19.5 billion in FY ‘21 amid the end of several procurement programs. “The Department appreciates the strong congressional support of our aviation program in FY '21, including the added funding for an additional 23 aircraft.  Our funding decreases from FY '21 enacted as we completed the planned buy of the F-18 Super Hornet, the P-8 Poseidon, VH-92 presidential helicopter,” Deputy…

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