House Armed Services Committee wants US Navy to replace its Reserve Hornets
By: David B. Larter, June 26, 2017
WASHINGTON — The U.S. Navy Reserve's F/A-18A+ Hornets are relics of the Reagan era, but the fleet still uses them to play the bad guy in air-to-air combat simulations. Now the House Armed Services Committee wants the U.S. Navy to plan on replacing them, according to a version of the 2018 National Defense Authorization Act released Monday.
The U.S. Navy Reserve has two squadrons of the planes — 33 all together — that they use predominantly as opposition forces for training aviators and painted to look like Russian MiG fighters. But they are supposed to be kept at a high level of readiness to serve as replacement jets if the U.S. Navy suffers combat losses in a crisis.
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