The pentagon budget cuts F-35 orders, stimulates the financing of drones and missiles

The Pentagon unveiled the details of its budget request of $ 961 billion Thursday, a budget roadmap that could prioritize new F-35 fighter planes in favor of new generation planes and drones.

The budget would reach this figure by 848.3 billion dollars in its discretionary defense budget and an additional $ 113 billion thanks to reconciliation, the “Big Beautiful Bill” that the Trump administration is trying to build up by the Congress at the moment.

Parallel budget requests include $ 25 billion for Golden Dome, President Donald Trump’s anti -missile defense initiative.

And as the Trump administration is advancing with the 6th generation air force fighter, nicknamed the F-47, the budget requires a reduction in the following purchase of F-35 from 74 to 47. It requires $ 3.4 billion for the F-47 program.

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The defense budget favors drones and missiles while reducing F-35 orders from 74 to 47. (US Navy Photo by Mass Communication Specialist 3rd Class Alora R. Blosch)

Officials still do not know if the fighter of the next generation of the navy, F / A-XX, goes ahead.

“Pending a decision by the Secretary of the Navy, the Secretary of Defense and the President,” a defense official for journalists told. “It is an active conversation, whether to continue the program or not.”

The program will take place now with “minimal funding” for design, said the manager.

When asked if other service branches can obtain a different variant from the F-47 instead of fully separate programs, the manager said that the idea was being studied.

“I would say that everything is being studied to obtain the air capacity (tactical) that our war fighters need as quickly as possible, and that is really what we look at the most, it is the calendar of all these programs.”

The budget requires the financing of three new navy ships through the discretionary request and 16 others through the request for rapprochement.

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The budget increases the expenses of small low -cost drones, which have proven to be effective in the war between Russia and Ukraine. (Reuters / Jonathan Ernst)

The proposed budget requires $ 7.4 billion for the army, $ 292.2 billion for the navy, $ 301.1 billion for Air Force and $ 170.9 billion on the defense scale. In Air Force budget demand is $ 40 billion for Space Force, an increase of 30% compared to the 2025 financial year.

The unusual budgetary structure, which managers classify as “a budget, two invoices”, is part of a wider 1 billion defense strategy when combined with national security expenditure at the Ministry of Energy. Administration officials worked for overtime to convince legislators to adopt the only major bill by July 4.

The budget requires a salary increase of 3.8% for troops, and it reveals plans to reduce its civilian employees by 7,286 people.

The Pentagon plans to continue to invest in ammunition and weapon systems: joint air surface missiles – extended range and long -range anti -ship missile, which have longer ranges and can be more effective in the Pacific – but it seeks much less precision strike missiles.

The budget increases the expenses of small low -cost drones that have proven to be effective in the war between Russia and Ukraine.

In an ideal world, Congress would adopt 12 distinct credit bills before the start of the financial year on October 1. But in recent years, he has often removed the headache on the road. (Reuters / Al Drago)

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The Radar E-7 plane will be reduced, confirmed the senior defense official: “Due to significant delays with cost increases from $ 588 million to $ 724 million per plane and survival problems in this disputed environment.”

In an ideal world, Congress would adopt 12 distinct credit bills before the start of the financial year on October 1. But in recent years, he has often dropped headache on the road with continuous resolutions, or bills that temporarily finance the government at the levels of the previous year, and Omnibus, extending the invoices that contained contenting for the 12 agencies in one stroke.