Revealed - America Finally Creating The Navy Next-Gen Fighter Jet

The Navy Is Finally Creating America's Next Fighter Jet

U.S. Navy aircraft carriers typically embark four squadrons of fighter jets as part of the carrier air wing. Right now, all four squadrons fly the F/A-18E/F Super Hornet. Over the course of the next decade, the Navy will retire older Super Hornets in favor of the carrier-based variant of the F-35, the F-35C. By the 2030s, a carrier air wing should consist of about two squadrons of upgraded Super Hornets, the Block III, and two squadrons of F-35Cs.

The F-35 fighter jet took more than 20 years to take from blueprints to an operational fighter. During that time, the U.S. went from an era of relative peace as the sole unchallenged superpower to the present, where an aggressive Russia and surging Chinese military are emerging as strategic competitors.

From early on, the F-35 was locked into design choices that made sense in a period of non-competition, such as relatively short range, low supersonic speed, and a small internal weapons bay. If the Pentagon knew in the mid-1990s what it knows today, it might have asked for a vastly different airplane.

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