U.S. Navy Fighter Shortage Looms

Credit: U.S. NAVY
The U.S. Navy’s most recent estimate of a 69 F/A-18 Hornet and Super Hornet shortage will soon be abandoned and replaced by an almost 300% jump in that shortfall. “The [initial aircraft shortage] assumes that the Joint Strike Fighter F-35C is operational in 2015 as currently planned, that the Navy...

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