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The Chinese Navy Catches A Break As U.S. Marines Retire Anti-Ship Fighters
« on: August 29, 2020, 10:45:58 am »
Aug 28, 2020,08:00am EDT
The Chinese Navy Catches A Break As U.S. Marines Retire Anti-Ship Fighters
David Axe
 

The U.S. Marine Corps expects in October to begin converting a second Japan-based squadron to new F-35B Lightning II stealth fighters.

That’s good news and bad. Good because the two-seat F/A-18D Hornets that Marine All-Weather Fighter-Attack Squadron 242 currently flies are old, tired and lacking in radar-evading qualities.

Bad because F/A-18s are the Marines’ main aerial ship-killers. And the F-35Bs can’t yet match that capability. This in a region teeming with Chinese warships.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/davidaxe/2020/08/28/the-chinese-navy-catches-a-break-as-us-marines-retire-anti-ship-fighters/#45d29a4c4dfc
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Re: The Chinese Navy Catches A Break As U.S. Marines Retire Anti-Ship Fighters
« Reply #1 on: August 29, 2020, 04:01:47 pm »
The Harpoon is not operational on the F-35 because the Harpoon is being phased out and its replacement, the AGM-158C, is newly operational on the F-18 and F-35.
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