The Navy's fiscal year 2008 budget request, officially unveiled this morning, slashes the number of aircraft the department would buy, while maintaining plans to purchase seven ships. Instead of buying 203 aircraft in FY-08, as previously planned, the Navy's baseline budget would procure only 188 (plus four P-8A planes that would be bought with development money for test purposes), according to documents released today by the department. On the surface, that means the Navy will buy fewer fighters, helicopters, training...
