During his era, the navy was able to induct submarines and slowly modified itself in terms of acquisitions of warships. However, he drastically reduced funding of military in 1950s and prioritized less on the issue of nuclear weapons in 1960s. Major procurement of weapons for the military was relied from the United States's donations. Major funding was made available for military acquisitions and procurement towards conventional weaponry for conventional defence. In 1960s, Pakistani military had American produced conventional weaponry in terms Jeep CJ, M48 Patton, M24 Chaffee, and M16 rifles, F-86, and submarine– all acquired through Foreign Military Sales program. In 1961, President Ayub started the nation's full fledge space program that was established with the cooperation of the air force, and created civilian Suparco that launched unmanned space missions throughout 1960s.