Tuesday, February 15, 2011

Budget breakdown: Army - News - Stripes

Budget breakdown: Army - News - Stripes: "Under pressure to hold the line on defense spending, the Army’s $145 billion fiscal 2012 budget is about as much as the service requested for this fiscal year: $143 billion.

Items the Army wants to spend more money on include communications equipment, helicopters, unmanned surveillance aircraft and some missiles, including the Patriot.

Conversely, the Army is cutting some weapons systems and plans to spend less on medium tactical vehicles. Construction spending is also expected to go down significantly."
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NATO Missile Defense for Europe





NATO has agreed to provide ballistic missile defense or BMD for all of Europe. This NATO BMD will protect NATO (European and American) military forces in Europe. It will also – for the very first time – protect the civilian population throughout Europe from ballistic missiles and weapons of mass destruction launched from the Middle East.
Much of this NATO missile defense for Europe – known as the European Phased Adaptive Approach – will actually be provided by the United States armed forces. This will include seaborne AEGIS missile defense on board US Navy ships in the Mediterranean, as well as land based radars and interceptor missiles.
This e-book describes how NATO missile defense for Europe will be organized and implemented.