The US Army is planning a pricey parade for its 250th anniversary — and Trump's birthday. Here's what could be on display.

Defense officials told NBC News that the parade and static displays could outgo arsenic overmuch arsenic $45 million, and the Army could extremity up mostly bearing the brunt of the expenses. In immoderate cases, it would outgo idiosyncratic units implicit $1 cardinal to participate.

"Could the parade perchance interaction training? Absolutely," 1 authoritative said. "Will it interaction training? That's unclear."

In a May 4 interrogation with NBC News' "Meet the Press," Trump said the precocious outgo of the US subject parade is "peanuts compared to the worth of doing it."

"We person the top missiles successful the world. We person the top submarines successful the world. We person the top service tanks successful the world. We person the top weapons successful the world," the president said. "And we're going to observe it."

However, the outgo estimates could alteration arsenic the White House and the Army finalize plans, a small implicit a period earlier the lawsuit is acceptable to instrumentality place.

While the Army has been readying its day solemnisation for implicit a year, the subject parade was a caller summation to the festivities, which besides includes subject demonstrations, philharmonic performances, a fittingness competition, and a fireworks display.

The Army said it was "exploring options to marque the solemnisation adjacent bigger, with much capableness demonstrations, further displays of equipment, and much engagement with the community."

Planning documents showed that a Stryker battalion could beryllium connected show during the Army's day solemnisation to commemorate the warfare connected terrorism.

The Stryker combat vehicles are 20-ton vehicles with 8 wheels designed for roads and off-roading.

The Army besides plans to grounds the M109 Paladin artillery vehicle successful its day celebration, though it isn't wide if it volition beryllium portion of the parade oregon portion of a static display.

The Paladin is simply a 155mm turreted self-propelled howitzer utilized by the US Army. Its 38-ton value and vessel treads could harm roads.

The parade could besides see an infantry battalion with Bradley warring vehicles and airy mobility vehicles similar Humvees and Infantry Squad Vehicles.

Highly maneuverable and formidable, the Bradley revolutionized mechanized infantry operations, not lone chiefly serving arsenic unit transport crossed hostile territory but besides allowed soldiers to combat from the armored vehicle.

The Bradleys were antecedently displayed connected the National Mall successful 2018 during Trump's "Salute to America" lawsuit — a toned-down mentation of his archetypal petition to parade American tanks done the streets of Washington.

But Trump's first-term extremity of showcasing the Army's conflict tanks could travel to fruition this year, arsenic plans elaborate that a vessel battalion with 2 companies of tanks could beryllium portion of this year's Flag Day festivities.

Army plans did not item however galore of each conveyance would beryllium transported to DC for the parade, but 92 of the 152 vehicles are categorized arsenic "heavy," which could see tanks oregon different tracked vehicles.

DC Mayor Muriel Bowser said successful April that the White House reached retired astir holding the event, but she said she didn't cognize if it would beryllium "characterized arsenic a subject parade."

Nonetheless, Bowser said that "if subject tanks were used, they should beryllium accompanied with galore millions of dollars to repair the roads."

Officials said that the program for showcasing the tanks is not yet final, and they are taking into information however to minimize harm to streets and bridges.

The parade's finale volition diagnostic a parachute leap by the Golden Knights, the Army's objection and contention parachute team, according to readying documents obtained by USA Today.

Members of the Golden Knights are readying to onshore and contiguous a "flag to the POTUS connected behalf of the Army," per an lawsuit readying slide.

This isn't the archetypal clip Trump pushed the thought of hosting a subject parade successful Washington.

Inspired by the subject parade connected Bastille Day successful France, the president said helium wanted to big a akin militarized solemnisation to commemorate the centennial day since the extremity of World War I successful 2018.

However, the program ended up being scrapped owed to logistical issues and skyrocketing costs of astir $92 cardinal — up from archetypal estimates of $12 million.

Rather than acknowledging the subject parade's large-scale scope and costs to repair imaginable harm to metropolis infrastructure, Trump took to Twitter to blasted section politicians for the event's cancellation.

"When asked to springiness america a terms for holding a large celebratory subject parade, they wanted a fig truthful ridiculously precocious that I canceled it," Trump wrote connected societal media astatine the time.

"Maybe we volition bash thing adjacent twelvemonth successful D.C. erstwhile the outgo comes WAY DOWN. Now we tin bargain immoderate much pitchy fighters!" helium added, referring to Lockheed Martin's F-35 Lightning II aircraft.

Bowser, who has been DC's politician since 2015, responded to Trump's remarks, saying that she "finally got thru (sic) to the world prima successful the White House with the realities ($21.6M) of parades/events/demonstrations successful Trump America."