'Others disagree'

JAGM's Fate Uncertain As Army General Doubts Its Affordability Amid Cuts

/ October 28, 2011 at 9:59 PM
Army chief programmer Lt. Gen. Robert Lennox last week cast the Joint Air-to-Ground Missile's future in an uncertain light, saying the program belongs to a class of new Army weapons not important enough to pursue amid budget cuts in the hundreds of billions of dollars. Speaking at an Oct. 26 hearing before the House Armed Services tactical air and land forces subcommittee, Lennox said the Army now considers the multibillion-dollar JAGM program a lower-priority item given that the Hellfire missile,...

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