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The process baffles me so I'm not pretending to understand & yet the wishful thinking will probably be cut short by CRs.
Ship and Aircraft Procurement See Bumps in FY2019 in $194.1B DoN Budget
12 Feb 2018 Sam LaGrone
"...The combat aircraft include nine carrier-variant Lockheed Martin F-35C Lighting [CAN YOU BELIEVE THAT & I'M CURRENTLY LISTENING TO 'BLINDED BY THE LIGHT'!] II Joint Strike Fighters, 20 Marine Corps-variant F-35Bs, 24 Boeing F/A-18E/F Super Hornet fighters...
...According to out-year projections within the budget request, the Navy won’t buy its first four MQ-25A Stingray unmanned aerial vehicles until FY 2023...."
Source: https://news.usni.org/2018/02/12/ship-a ... don-budget
Pentagon unveils $686 billion military budget for FY19
12 Feb 2018 Joe Gould and Tara Copp
"...Aircraft
• 77 F-35 Joint Strike Fighters: $10.7 billion
• 24 F/A-18s: $2 billion..."
Source: https://www.defensenews.com/breaking-ne ... -for-2019/
DoD R&D Soars 24%, Procurement Up 15%; Army Up Most
12 Feb 2018 Sydney J. Freedberg Jr.
"...Broken out by services, the Army (14.9 percent) and Air Force (14.1 percent) got the largest increases, while the Navy Department — which includes the Marine Corps — lags slightly (at a still respectable 12.1 percent)....
...◾ As for aircraft, the number of tri-service F-35 Joint Strike Fighters bought goes from 70 in the 2018 request to 77, a 10 percent increase in numbers — but since the price keeps coming down, the funding allocated remains the same at $10.7 billion. That’s also. decline from what the Obama administration had proposed for this year — 80 F-35s. There’s a bigger relative increase in the Navy’s F/A-18E/F Super Hornet fighter, from 14 planes for $1.3 billion last year to 24 planes for $2 billion this year...."
Source: https://breakingdefense.com/2018/02/dod-r-army-up-most/
US Navy wants more sailors, jets and an extra ship in 2019
12 Feb 2018 David B. Larter
"...For aircraft, the Navy is asking for $19 billion, a figure which includes 24 F/A-18 Super Hornets in 2019 and has another 86 planned for the FYDP.
The Navy is planning to buy nine F-35Cs and the Marine Corps plans to pick up another 20 of the vertical-launch F-35Bs [WUT!? STOVL PuhLeez] in 2019. The Navy’s buying strategy for the F-35C picks up in 2020 with 16 slated for purchase and then 24 every year from 2021 through 2023 for a total of 97 in the FYDP. [geez some reporters are fwits]
Procurement of the MQ-25 Stingray, an aerial unmanned tanker currently in development, is slated to begin in 2023, the last year of the FYDP...."
Source: https://www.defensenews.com/smr/federal ... p-in-2019/
US Air Force requests $156.3 billion in FY19, plans to retire B-1, B-2 fleets
12 Feb 2018 Aaron Mehta
"...In FY19, the Air Force is requesting 48 F-35A fighter jets...
...Overall, the budget request calls for buying 258 F-35A fighters through the next five years..."
Source: https://www.defensenews.com/smr/federal ... -2-fleets/
RAN FAA A4G Skyhawk 1970s: https://www.faaaa.asn.au/spazsinbad-a4g/ AND https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCwqC_s6gcCVvG7NOge3qfAQ/