The United States Congress approved the bill on military appropriations for 2015. Republican Senator John McCain has made in the document amendment, which prohibits U.S. companies to sign with Russian partners new contracts for the purchase of RD-180 engines for missiles Atlas V. this tells on Wednesday, December 3, TASS.
The document also provides for the allocation of 220 million dollars to study the American rocket motor that will be able to replace the Russian RD-180. All in all, for the purpose of defence in 2015 there will be about 585 billion, of which $ 63.7 billion will be spent on military operations in Afghanistan, Iraq, and Syria.
It is assumed that the House of representatives of the United States Congress will vote on the bill on military appropriations already this week, and the Senate in the upcoming.
The RD-180 engines produced by NPO "Energomash" (Khimki), long used by a consortium of United Launch Alliance, created by Boeing and Lockheed Martin, for installation on 1 stage of the rocket Atlas V. It is used for launching not only the civil and military satellites to order the Pentagon.
The Pentagon and United Launch Alliance openly oppose the McCain amendment, expressing concerns that it may prevent stable orbiting American military satellites. Experts are not sure that the current U.S. stock RD-180 will be quite in order in the medium term to ensure launches the required number of missiles Atlas V.
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