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US Department of Defense budget for next year will be a record amount for the purchase of weapons – Bloomberg

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The amount of the defense budget will be a record in the history of the country during peacetime.

The budget of the United States Department of Defense for the next year should exceed $835 billion, which will be a record in the history of the country during peacetime.

Bloomberg writes about this, citing its own sources.

The spending plan to be proposed by U.S. President Joe Biden on Thursday is reported to include what officials say is one of the country's largest peacetime defense budgets: $170 billion for arms purchases and $145 billion for research and development, both a record high for Lately.

As one official said, the “upper limit” of the US Department of Defense budget for the next fiscal year, which begins on October 1, will exceed $835 billion, compared with $816 billion for the current year.

“While weapons sent to Ukraine have depleted Pentagon stocks, spending to support President Volodymyr Zelensky’s resistance to a Russian invasion is funded by a separate supplementary appropriation. chief on military leadership in the United States,” the newspaper writes.

Among the main budget expenditures are the purchase of 83 F-35 fighters and long-range ammunition for the Air Force and Navy.

Recall, Politico wrote that the United States is studying the possibility of installing an AIM-120 medium-range air-to-air missile on MiG aircraft used by Ukraine.

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