US military reserve appropriations reached $ 170 billion to fill the weapons consumed

(Bloomberg, Washington) Acting in a budget of the US Department of Defense shows that the new fiscal Ministry of Defense's US $ 170 billion (about 230 billion yuan) military procurement projects are mainly concentrated in filling the provision of military reserve to Ukraine.The gap is in case of conflict between the United States and China.

US President Biden's fiscal budget recently announced the fiscal year of fiscal year, raising national defense expenditure to $ 842 billion, and one of the largest annual defense budgets in American history.U.S. officials who are unwilling to be named have revealed that for the new fiscal year starting on October 1, the total budget proposed by the Ministry of National Defense exceeded 835 billion US dollars, of which 170 billion US dollars were used for weapons procurement and $ 145 billion for weapons research and development.

According to the official summary documents obtained by Bloomberg, the Ministry of Defense will apply for a procurement budget of $ 76.8 billion for the Navy and Marine Corps, of which 32.8 billion U.S. dollars are used for the construction of new ships; the Air Force, including the American space force, requires $ 61 billion; Army costs $ 24.4 billion.

Some major arms procurement projects include: $ 951 million to purchase 550 united air -to -land defense zones; $ 928 million to purchase 831 navy / Air Force AMRAAM air -to -air missiles; $ 886 million to purchase 5016 pieces of 5016 piecesGuide multiple rockets (GMLRS) rockets; $ 639 million to purchase 91 naval long -range anti -ship missiles; $ 199 million to purchase 541 javelin anti -armored missiles. The missile was respected by the Ukraine army for its lethality for Russian tanks; 179 millionThe US dollar purchase 28 extra Himars mobile rocket systems.

The supporting R & D documents require a total of $ 145 billion, of which 46 billion U.S. dollars, US $ 27 billion in navy, and US $ 15.7 billion.

Some projects that have obtained up to up to the most funding allocation are: the new "Sentinel" intercontinental ballistic missile at Northrop Grumman, which has R & D funding is 3.7 billion US dollars; the B-21 bomber development has been obtained3 billion US dollars; the "next-generation air advantage" plan to replace the F-22 fighter to obtain $ 2.3 billion.

The Pentagon will publish these documents on Monday (March 13) as part of its detailed disclosure of the new fiscal budget request.