Budget Sets $300M for Highly Capable UCLASS Competition

The Pentagon's portion of a USD1.15 trillion government spending bill released by Congress on 16 December contains USD300 million for competitive development of an Unmanned Carrier Launched Airborne Surveillance and Strike (UCLASS) air vehicle.

The military asked for roughly half that. Congress wants a competitive development, risk reduction work and ...

Congress has said that the navy should develop a penetrating, air-refuellable UCLASS capable of performing a broad range of missions in a non-permissive environment.

Here we go again. The only thing I think the navy can do at this point to fight the more capable UCLASS is simply to not spend the money.

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Am I having a feeling of Groundhog day?Though all the development had been all sorted,tested,passed and all on track then shelved all to go through all the same thing again?..