U.S. Navy trims plans for future aircraft buys
The U.S. Navy plans to buy only 20 McDonnell Douglas F/A-18E/F strike fighters in fiscal 1998 instead of the 24 it wanted, and will have to absorb several other FY '98 aviation cuts. In its fiscal '97 budget submission, the Navy said it would buy 24 F/A-18E/Fs in FY '98 and 162 between FY '97 and FY...
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