2015 DoD Budget: OGSI Fund Buys 2 Additional F-35s, P-8s, Army Helos

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http://breakingdefense.com/2014/03/2015-dod-budget-ogs-fund-buys-f-35s-p-8s-army-helos/



2015 DoD Budget: OGSI Fund Buys 2 Additional F-35s, P-8s, Army Helos
By Colin Clark on March 04, 2014 at 12:38 PM

PENTAGON: With an eye on a Congress it hopes will cut it some slack, the Obama Defense Department today released a budget remarkable for its apparent insouciance, trimming the base budget by only $400 million from the 2014 budget passed by Congress.

However, there is a catch. The most politically risky part of the budget will be the Opportunity, Growth, and Security Initiative, which is basically a $26.4 billion stand-alone fund designed to evade the budget cap set to avoid the caps in the Bipartisan Budget Act so the Pentagon can buy the weapons it needs and fund readiness. Congress, of course, must approve this fund for it to mean anything.

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If you want to know how important this fund is to the procurement budget, the Pentagon budget overview notes it will be used to buy:

Two Air Force F-35s for $300 million (that’s an additional two aircraft on top of the 34 aircraft the Pentagon plans to buy, a Pentagon spokeswoman says; there are 26 in the Air Force budget)
10 C-130Js for $1.1 billion
8 Poseidon P-8As for $1.1 billion
12 Reaper drones for $200 million
28 Blackhawk helicopters for $500 million
26 Apaches for $600 million
2 Chinooks for $100 million


unhappycamper comment: Since a Blackhawk helicopter costs at least $70 million dollars, we're buying 29 of them for under $18 mil a pop.. Really?

One Reaper and its control station is $25 mil a pop. Is there a sale on these things?

Two shithooks for $50 mil a pop. You're kidding me.