Author: DIANE Publishing Company

Publisher: DIANE Publishing

Published: 1996-09

Total Pages: 38

ISBN-13: 0788133934

Over the next 6 years, the military services plan to spend more than $10 billion on aircraft & other weapons to improve their close support capabilities. These plans come at a time of reduced defense budgets, force structure reductions, & questions about the affordability of future defense modernization programs. This report discusses the aggregate capabilities of the military services to provide close support, & the extent to which those capabilities continue to be modernized & enhanced. Evaluates modernization proposals for the close support mission.