Senate Panel Balks At Defense Department's New Anti-Ship Missile Plan

摘要

A Senate panel has rejected the Pentagon's plan to field an urgently needed new air-launched, anti-ship cruise missile in the Pacific, proposing in its fiscal year 2015 defense authorization bill to derail a plan to make Lockheed Martin's Long-Range Anti-Ship Missile demonstration project a program of record. The Senate Armed Services Committee's bill would strip all funding for the Offensive Anti-Surface Warfare (OASuW) capability - $202.9 million - and require the Navy to redirect previously appropriated funds for the project "to conduct more thorough analyses of alternatives for meeting combatant commander needs."