Don’t Expect the US Military’s Next Fighter to Be Joint
By Marcus Weisgerber Global Business Editor Read bio
May 6, 2019
While the Navy’s and Air Force’s next tactical jet might share some capabilities, a Navy official says, they won’t share an airframe.
After two decades of working side-by-side on the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter, the U.S. Navy and Air Force won’t be teaming to build a successor jet, a top Navy official said.
“I don’t necessarily foresee an exact sort of repeat of F-35 in a single solution set,†Angie Knappenberger, deputy director of air warfare for the deputy chief of naval operations for warfare systems, said Monday at the Navy League’s Sea Air Space conference in National Harbor, Maryland. “I do see an awful lot of capabilities and systems that we can take, share one service to another.â€
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