To counter the growing threat of the Soviet navy, the Administration has announced its intention to reverse the long-term decline in the size of the U.S. Navy and otherwise improve Navy capabilities. It proposes to expand the U.S. fleet from the current 535 ships to roughly 600 and to increase the number of carrier-based air wings from 12 to 14. In addition to expanding, the Navy plans to modernize the existing carrier air forces, replacing 360 aircraft with more recent types, notably the F/A-18. This paper estimates the cost of the Navy's plan to expand and modernize its carrier air forces and examines alternatives to parts of that plan, while a companion Congressional Budget Office paper analyzes the shipbuilding issue.
Costs of Expanding and Modernizing the Navy's Carrier-Based Air Forces
1982
90 pages
Report
Keine Angabe
Englisch
Aircraft , Business & Economics , Military Operations, Strategy, & Tactics , Fighter aircraft , Navy , Attack aircraft , Cost estimates , Military force levels , Carrier based aircraft , Military modernization , Ussr , Naval warfare , Savings , Wing level organizations , Squadrons , Naval procurement , Production rate , Range(Distance) , Naval budgets , Expansion , Aircraft carriers , Payload , Replacement , Long range(Time) , Cost comparisons , F/a-18 aircraft , A-6e aircraft , A-7e aircraft , F-14 aircraft , F-4 aircraft , Procurement costs , Operating costs , Alternative aircraft , Carrier air wings
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