Pentagon budget 2022: US Navy looks to fund additional frigate, destroyer work
by Michael Fabey
The US Navy is seeking more than USD3.2 billion in its proposed fiscal year (FY) 2022 budget for its guided-missile destroyer (DDG) and frigate (FFG) programmes, while looking to decommission some of its Littoral Combat Ships (LCSs) and guided-missile cruisers (CGs).
Released on 28 May, the FY 2022 budget requests USD2 billion for one DDG 51 Arleigh Burke-class destroyer, which slated to be a Flight III ship equipped with the Advanced Air and Missile Defense Radar (AMDR) and the AN/SLQ 32 Surface Electronic Warfare Improvement Program Block III.
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