White House Eyes Bomb Resistant Vehicles (yet again) [View All]

White House Eyes Bomb Resistant Vehicles
By ANDREW TAYLOR
Associated Press Writer

WASHINGTON (AP) - The White House will soon forward to Congress a request for $5.3 billion for resistant vehicles, a top Pentagon official told a House panel Tuesday.

Deputy Secretary of Defense Gordon England told the House Budget Committee that the request for the vehicles - whose V-shaped undercarriages deflect roadside bomb blasts - will help keep production lines humming at full capacity.

The funding comes on top of $5.6 billion already approved for 6,400 mine resistant vehicles and will be added to the Pentagon's $141.7 billion request for military operations in Iraq and Afghanistan for the budget year beginning Oct. 1. The additional money would help pay for those vehicles and purchase another 1,520 of them.

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