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U.S. Navy Green-Lights New And Improved Super Hornet
Jun 8, 2017 Lara Seligman | Aerospace Daily & Defense Report
In a victory for Boeing’s fighter shop, the U.S. Navy has opted to fund the company’s upgraded F/A-18 Super Hornet “Block III” and plans to begin fielding the capability in fiscal 2019.
In a detailed blueprint laid out in the Navy’s most recent budget request, the service revealed it plans to invest $264.9 million through fiscal 2022 in upgrading the Super Hornet fleet to Boeing’s proposed Block III configuration. Starting in fiscal 2019, the 1990s-era F/A-18 E/Fs will get a series of modifications designed to keep the fleet relevant and effective against advanced threats well into the 21st century.
Perhaps just as telling, the Navy’s budget request includes no funding at all for the Next Generation Fighter, the planned follow-on to the F/A-18 E/F, from fiscal 2018 through the five-year defense plan. In written testimony submitted to Congress June 7, top service officials said the Next Generation Air Dominance (NGAD) initiated in January 2016 would address the retirement of the Super Hornets and EA-18G in the late 2020s and early 2030s. However, while NGAD began as a joint program, it is now funded solely by the Air Force; an Air Force spokeswoman said to her knowledge the ongoing NGAD work does not support a future carrier-based aircraft.
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