The US Navy’s fight to fix its worn-out Super Hornet fleet is making way
By: David B. Larter  
WASHINGTON – The U.S. Navy is slowly making progress to restore to fighting condition its hard-worn fleet of F/A-18 Super Hornet fighters, which last year had just one in three of its fighters ready to deploy.
Today, almost half of the Navy’s 546 Super Hornets are considered “mission capable,†a sign that the readiness investments made in the Mattis era are beginning to bear fruit.
In an Aug. 7 media roundtable, Navy Secretary Richard Spencer told reporters the Navy had been chipping away at long-term down aircraft that had been clogging the aviation maintenance depots. The Navy started 2018 with 241 fully mission capable aircraft, and that number is now at 270, he said.
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