Top Navy leader: F-35 'on a completely different level' from the Super Hornet
By Jacqueline Klimas (@jacqklimas) • 1/17/17 9:35 AM
Chief of Naval Operations Adm. John Richardson said Tuesday that Lockheed Martin's F-35 is "on a completely different level" from the F/A-18 Super Hornet, which President-elect Trump asked Boeing to price out as a possible replacement for the fifth-generation joint strike fighter.
Richardson said the Lockheed Martin F-35 is a fifth-generation fighter jet, while the Boeing Super Hornet is a fourth-generation platform. The difference represents a large jump in capability.
"If you just think about the aircraft in terms of capability … [the F-35] is on a completely different level from the Super Hornet," Richardson said at a DBrief Live event.
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