Air Force Foreshadows FY-16 Spending On Huey, ICBM, Nuclear Cruise Missile Replacement Efforts

By James Drew / December 30, 2014 at 9:16 AM
Air Force Global Strike Command's top modernization priorities as the Defense Department enters the fiscal year 2016 budget cycle include replacing the Huey helicopter, Minuteman III intercontinental ballistic missile and Air-Launched Cruise Missile as well as B-2 and B-52 bomber upgrades, according to a top planning and requirements official. Equally important will be nuclear command, control and communications infrastructure modernization and the construction of new weapons storage facilities, the official added. "In truth, none can wait," Brig. Gen. Ferdinand Stoss...

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