{"id":100673,"date":"2024-08-03T16:56:48","date_gmt":"2024-08-03T06:56:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/us-senate-3-billion-over-president-budget-500-more-air-force-aircraft\/"},"modified":"2024-08-03T16:56:48","modified_gmt":"2024-08-03T06:56:48","slug":"us-senate-allots-3-4-billion-over-presidents-budget-for-500-more-air-force-aircraft","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=100673","title":{"rendered":"US Senate Allots $3.4 Billion Over Presidents Budget For 500 More Air Force Aircraft"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                    The Senate Committee has approved the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.appropriations.senate.gov\/news\/minority\/senate-committee-approves-fy-2025-defense-appropriations-bill\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" >FY 2025 Defense Appropriations Bill<\/a>, which is aimed at &#8220;<em>providing US military services with the funding needed to deter China and Russia&#8230;<\/em>&#8221; The measure was passed unanimously and provides $851.7 billion in discretionary funding, some 2.3% higher than the President&#8217;s budget request for FY 2025. The Senate bill includes a number of important developments for Air Force and Navy aircraft procurement and development. The <a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/us-air-force-fleet-shrinking-or-growing\/\">US Air Force had previously requested to divest 250 aircraft and procure only 121 in FY 2025<\/a>.    <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Senate fully funds the NGAD and F\/A-XX sixth-gen fighters, adding more F15EXs and funding other aircraft and systems.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[396,2125,748,628,412,1328],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-100673","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aircraft","category-f-15","category-f-35","category-fighter-jets","category-military","category-united-states-air-force"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100673","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=100673"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100673\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":100674,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100673\/revisions\/100674"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=100673"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=100673"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=100673"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}