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| | | | | The Blue Angels' F/A-18A/B/CD Hornets are some of the oldest and used-up fighters in the Navy and Marine Corps inventory. Recently, the Angels have had control surfaces break off in mid-flight, and their serviceability is not improving. As a result, the Navy has asked Boeing to come up with plans to convert Super Hornets into a configuration that actually makes sense for a group of flying acrobats. | |
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| | | | | The team captured the goodbye in gorgeous images and video. Now they will complete their transition to the Super Hornet. | |
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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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| | | After Putin's speech, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy asked for the accelerated admission of Ukraine to the NATO alliance... This could mean a U.S.-Russia war, which could escalate to World War III and nuclear war, and was something that every U.S. president from Harry Truman to Ronald Reagan saw as his highest priority to avoid. In... | ||
