South Korea’s National Defense Committee cross out budget to buy attack helicopters

South Korea’s National Defense Committee has cut back next year’s defense budget by $375 million.

An AH-64 Apache augmented to the 2nd Battalion, 2nd Aviation Regiment, 2nd Combat Aviation Brigade provides attack support to ground forces Sept. 21 at the Rodriguez Live Fire Complex in South Korea.

The budget of $12 million for the program to buy new attack helicopters was crossed out. It was reported in April that the defense project promotion committee has approved the purchase of around 36 attack helicopters.

The committee also cut $279 million from the budget to buy more airborne early warning aircraft.

The project to upgrade the F-35A lost $16.9 million in funding.

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