Navy Chief Sticks With Surveillance UCLASS
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Congress doesn’t like it, but Navy Secretary Ray Mabus sticks with a “surveillance” UCLASS rather than “strike,” reports Breaking Defense.
A US $1.9 billion weapons package approved for the Israeli Air Force, includes 14,500 tail kits for Joint Direct Attack Munitions, 4,100 250-pound GBU-39 small diameter bombs, a variety of Paveway laser-guided bomb kits, some 3,000 Hellfire missiles and 250 AIM-120C Advanced Medium-Range Air-to-Air Missiles, reports Defense News.
France boosts arms spending by €1.5 billion (US $1.7 billion), which includes Lockheed’s C-130 Hercules, reports Defense News.
The Pentagon finds its second aircraft carrier will exceed, by at least $370 million, a Congressional cap, reports Pilot Online.
Senate Armed Services Committee Chairman John McCain’s acquisition reform efforts rebuke defense contractors, Pentagon bureaucrats and his House counterpart, reports Politico.
Military.com has video of five ships in rough seas.
President Obama addresses graduates at the U.S. Coast Guard Academy, says rising sea levels and higher global temperatures endanger military bases, reports The Hill.
North Korea’s submarine missile launch was bogus, only a tampered photo Reuters reports.
Pentagon officials reiterate unapproved credit card use by military personnel is not being paid for by taxpayers, reports Military Times.
