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Senate Appropriators Boost Army Vehicle, Aircraft Funding By Billions

Wednesday, November 22nd, 2017

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Senate Appropriators Boost Army Vehicle, Aircraft Funding By Billions

CH-47F Chinook and AH-64E Apache. Photo courtesy Boeing.

Army aircraft and combat vehicle procurement stand to receive billions in additional funding under a funding bill proposed by Senate appropriators on Nov. 21. The Senate Appropriations Committee added more than $1 billion to the Army’s fiscal 2018 request of $3.4 billion for combat vehicle procurement and modernization. A majority share of that increase would go to upgrading Abrams tanks to System Enhancement Package version 3 (SEPv3) configuration, Bradley Fighting Vehicles to the most-modern A4 configuration and equipping Stryker wheeled…

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