Army pushes $60 million in Stinger replacement funding to unfunded priorities list

By Ethan Sterenfeld / April 12, 2022 at 3:01 PM
The Army has included $60 million to develop a Stinger missile replacement in its fiscal year 2023 unfunded priorities list, which the service says it needs just to stay on schedule with its plan to replace the Cold War-era system. Without the research and development funding -- which the Army did not include in its $178 billion budget request last month -- the service might have to delay the Stinger replacement it plans to field in FY-27, according to an...

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