Is the US Navy’s F/A-18 Super Hornet Doomed?
By
Caleb Larson
The U.S. Navy is laying the groundwork for its newest fighter, but it won’t get rid of the F/A-18 Super Hornet anytime soon.
Navy Aviation Vision 2030-2035, published in late October, explains how the Navy’s older airframes will fly with state-of-the-art platforms.
A single image of a proposed F/A-XX in the Navy publication shows what the new fighter could look like in general terms. Unfortunately, the two-dimensional rendering doesn’t reveal much, though the Navy explained that the fighter would act as a “quarterback,” able to command and control unmanned and attritable air assets.
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