The Navy has requested $5.2 million in fiscal year 2022 to start design and development work on a Nuclear-Armed Sea-Launched Cruise Missile, despite concern from congressional Democrats about the program. The $5.2 million will go toward designing, developing, producing and deploying the Nuclear-Armed Sea-Launched Cruise Missile. The Pentagon re-started the program in 2018 to counter Russia and China, and FY-22 is the first year the new start program has been allocated funding. "SLCM-N is scoped to deliver an integrated flight...
