August 5, 2021 | International, Naval
Navy Questions Future Viability of Super Hornets; Recommends Against New Buy - USNI News
NATIONAL HARBOR, Md. — If Congress mandates the Navy keep buying the current F/A-18E/F Super Hornets, the airframes will be in the fleet into the 2050s. But by then, the fourth-generation fighters likely couldn’t stand up to future threats, a service official said Tuesday. Rear Adm. Andrew Loiselle, who leads the chief of naval operation’s …