Posted on 03/25/2014 12:21:16 PM PDT by Red Steel
President Barack Obama is proposing drastically cutting, and then eliminating, two missile programs pivotal to U.S. security, The Washington Free Beacon reported.
The Tomahawk and Hellfire missiles are on the chopping block, according to Obama's budget proposal, which will cut by $128 million the Tactical Tomahawk in 2015 and eliminate it completely after that. ...
It's a major turnabout from last year, when the Navy planned to buy 980 Tactical Tomahawks, the primary cruise missile in use throughout the fleet, according to Defense News. In 2015, the Navy would buy just 100 Tomahawks, the last the branch would purchase. The United States used some 220 Tomahawks in the fight with Libya, according to the Free Beacon.
The Pentagon currently does not have a replacement missile for the Tomahawk and with the United States using approximately 100 Tomahawks annually, the supply will be empty by around 2018, the Free Beacon reports. ...
"It doesn't make sense," Seth Cropsey, director of the Hudson Institute's Center for American Seapower, told the Free Beacon.
He characterized the cuts as "breathtaking" and are "like running a white flag up on a very tall flagpole and saying, 'We are ready to be walked on,'" he said. ...
Hellfire air-to-surface missiles will be nixed in 2015, according to Obama's proposal. The Free Beacon reported that the Tomahawk cuts are shifting money from acquiring the missiles and instead investing in "an experimental missile program that experts say will not be battle-ready for at least 10 years."
(Excerpt) Read more at newsmax.com ...
Fewer missiles aimed at the White
Hut....
The pansy Obama at work.
In order to disguise Navy cuts, he is also re-classifying hospital ships, minesweepers, and tiny coastal patrol craft as being part of the COMBAT surface fleet.
Another stupid move of galactic proportions from the Destroyer-in-Chief.
I pray we can recover from this anti-American pretender.
Actually it does make sense. America is being brought down from within.
Ping.
What’s next - mothballing every stealth aircraft we have?
Better yet, this turd would sell them to the highest bidder and use the money for entitlement program expansion.
This a-hole is acting like he’s the big man on campus parading thru life at President Land in a new Disney Park.
The F’ng real world is out there and they are going to move against us and our interests and he is castrating our ability to defend our selves.
Now that Iraq/Afganistan are a mess and Obama has fomented mass murder in Libya/Syria/Egypt. This is Obama’s bid to earn that Nobel Peace Prize he was awarded even before he showed up.
The only difference between Obama and Jimmy Carter is the they gave Carter the Nobel Peace Prize AFTER he was a failure. In Obama’s case they didn’t wait that long.
Traitor...
Anything is likely as it is Obama. Anyone who understood Obama’s background during his pResidential run knew all this was coming, and he’s into his 2nd usurping term.
Thank God the entire world is at peace.
Don’t the drones use the Hellfire?
WTF? Was this ever reported by the alphabet media?
Right. It’s small and compact making it versatile.
Drones are reportedly Obastard’s favorite murder weapon, so I’m confused about why he wants to deprive himself of them.
These are the types of articles that tilt the reader to the conclusion that Obama intends to set the US for the kill before he leaves office rather than convert the US into his personal kingdom to rule over as Emperor Barack the first.
The other side to that is he hopes and wants the US to get hit good so he can have the thin pretext to suspend the rest of the US Constitution and make his kingdom.
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Remember, this is just a budget proposal. And it’s Obama’s budget proposal at that. These cuts will never make it out of appropriations committee meetings without this funding being restored. And what GOPe’r would vote for this during the current primary season. And Scott Wagner’s write-in win in Pennsylvania should show that write-ins are a viable option in the fight against RINO’S.
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