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email Where the US Army’s Cut List and Wish List Overlap
Some programs slated for trimming in the 2022 budget proposal also appear on the service’s list of unfunded priorities.
Updated: 2:25 p.m. ET
To make space in its shrinking budget, the U.S. Army has listed 37 programs for trimming in fiscal 2022. As has become standard practice, service officials are also asking lawmakers for money for things excluded from the budget proposal sent to Congress last week. Some programs appear on both lists.
Take the Abrams tank, long the centerpiece of the land service’s armored force. A document listing the 37 programs says the Abrams effort is to be cut by about $154 million. But in their unfunded priorities list informally known as the “wish list” service officials ask lawmakers to add $369 million to the Abrams program to help field the third version of the tank to Army National Guard units without
Pentagon budget 2022: US Army caps future PrSM range at 650 km
by Ashley Roque
Future iterations of the US Army’s Precision Strike Missile (PrSM) could reach targets out to 650 km, according to new budget documents that seemingly cap the weapon’s capability at a shorter range than previously discussed.
On 28 May the White House delivered its fiscal year 2022 (FY 2022) budget request to lawmakers. Included in the army’s portion is a USD354.5 million ask for PrSM next year USD188.5 million to continue PrSM research and development (R&D), and USD166 million for the purchase of 110 missiles.
The service is currently testing PrSM prototypes in anticipation of fielding a baseline capability in 2023 that will have a range exceeding 500 km. Even with the first missile increment fielded, the army plans to continue upgrading missile with a multimode seeker that will enable it to also strike maritime targets, and reach ones further away. Brigadier General John Rafferty, head of the
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The Army has made a full-court press for precision missiles, which it says will be desperately needed in the Indo-Pacific theater in the event of a war with China. In addition to the PrSM, the service wants to add the Long Range Hypersonic weapon to its arsenal. It is expected to have a range of several thousand miles.
The Army‘s missile strategy has been controversial, even in the Pentagon. Gen. Timothy Ray, commander of the Air Force’s Global Strike Command, has accused the Army of duplicating already existing weapons systems, calling their plan a “stupid idea.” Some analysts questioned the Army‘s logic of developing a land-based missile system for East Asia before securing launch locations, which likely will be in foreign countries.