Posted on 03/24/2014 11:23:52 AM PDT by Nachum
President Barack Obama is seeking to abolish two highly successful missile programs that experts say has helped the U.S. Navy maintain military superiority for the past several decades.
The Tomahawk missile program—known as “the world’s most advanced cruise missile”—is set to be cut by $128 million under Obama’s fiscal year 2015 budget proposal and completely eliminated by fiscal year 2016, according to budget documents released by the Navy.
In addition to the monetary cuts to the program, the number of actual Tomahawk missiles acquired by the United States would drop significantly—from 196 last year to just 100 in 2015. The number will then drop to zero in 2016.
The Navy will also be forced to cancel its acquisition of the well-regarded and highly effective Hellfire missiles in 2015, according to Obama’s proposal.
The proposed elimination of these missile programs came as a shock to lawmakers and military experts, who warned ending cutting these missiles would significantly erode America’s ability to deter enemy forces.
“The administration’s proposed budget dramatically under-resources our investments in munitions and leaves the Defense Department with dangerous gaps in key areas, like Tomahawk and Hellfire missiles,” said Rep. Randy Forbes (R., Va.), a member of House Armed Services Committee.
“Increasing our investment in munitions and retaining our technological edge in research and development should be a key component of any serious defense strategy,” he said.
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Follow the money. I wonder who's getting the $?
Before November 4, 2008, immediately. After November 4. 2008, I doubt if it ever does.
No problem, we'll use UAVs to unleash hordes of queers on them.
no, he has several hundred million helpers, a/k/a voters. the Democrat Party, and the main stream media to aid and abet him.
He didn’t like U.S. using them against his real friends!
Another measure of treason, and an action against his Oath of Office.
“Probably some numbnuts that thinks Tomahawks are feather-bedecked hatchets and that Hellfire was something in the Chaplain corps ...”
I guess you didn’t hear about how upset some Indian tribes have become over the use of their word “Tomahawk” for such horrible weapons.” /s
Comment I came across:
The Chinese recognize President Obama as one of their own? Every American should read “Three Wild Swans,” a first-hand, three generation account of the Communist take-over of China. It began....with community organizers.
He’ll do this until he has a veto overridden.
Even the Democrats know this is a stupid idea. Even the stupid ones know this is a stupid idea.
Don’t give them ideas ...
I just wished that if we are invaded, the invaders kill all the morons who elected this half-breed train wreck first.
That would most likely happen because it would be those bumpkins that would think the invaders really just wanted to be buddies.
Feel better?
okay this mis treason. actively disarming oir forces to be sitting ducks.
military wake up and deal with obama quickly. don’t go martial law against the country. deal with the actual problem quickly.
if you don’t it falls to the citizens of the country and you don’t want to be against hudreds of millions.
Hopefully BEFORE it's too late...
Dictator for life?
Blackmail?
Looks like that was the “flexibility” Obama was talking about.
Just read some reviews of Wild Swans - Three daughters of China. They all speak of how extraordinarily brutal Mao was. Amazing that idiots in this administration praise him. These leftist professors are sugar coating atrocities.
One thing - they had something called “singing fountains”. The Red Guard would bash people’s heads open so the fountain was blood and the singing was their screaming. This was done to entertain others....and keep them in line certainly.
I guess Anita Dunn finds this admirable. We are in way worse danger than most think.
Hmmmmmn.
That’s funny.
HE’S BEEN SHOOTING TOMAHAWKS AT A RECORD-SETTING PACE!!!!
(Oh. Right. Shoot the ones we have. Don’t buy any more!)
No.
Obama has been shooting what few Tomahawks we do have at trucks, cars, and suspected terrorist hovels in Afghanistan every chance he gets.
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