Breaking Defense:
WASHINGTON: Congress has slapped DoD with a prohibition on spending any fiscal 2020 funds for buying or fielding intermediate-range ballistic or cruise missiles despite US withdrawal from the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces (INF) Treaty.
The prohibition was agreed by the House and Senate in the 2020 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) late on Monday — the night before one of the competitors in the Army’s pivotal contest for a next-generation long-range missile successfully tested a system . that eventually the service hope to reach a minimum range of 500 kilometers, above the INF’s range cap. Of course, the missile being tested is still in development so it would not violate the NDAA restrictions.
