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| | NATIONAL HARBOR, Md. - If Congress mandates the Navy keep buying the current F/A-18E/F Super Hornets, the airframes will be in the fleet into the 2050s. But by then, the fourth-generation fighters likely couldn't stand up to future threats, a service official said Tuesday. Rear Adm. Andrew Loiselle, who leads the chief of naval operation's air warfare directorate (OPNAV N98), today provided the rationale for why the Navy wants to stop buying the Boeing-built aircraft. Super Hornets are, "a 30-year airframe at 10,000 hours. So that takes us out to about 2055. And there isn't a lot of analysis out
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| | While women have consistently broken barriers in military aviation, a woman has yet to fly in formation with the Blue Angels. But experts say it's only a matter of time.
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| | [AI summary] The US Navy and Boeing successfully simulated the MQ-25 Stingray drone's carrier landing using the JPALS system, marking progress toward operational deployment of unmanned aerial vehicles on aircraft carriers.
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| The U.S. Air Force is the youngest American military branch, forming in the 20th century after the invention of the airplane. Learn about the history of the Air Force, how it's structured, the process of joining and leaving, and life during time served.