AviationBanter - View Single Post - Boeing Offers Additional F/A-18 Sale to U.S. Navy

**rstro**

sure there is/.........
call ARMARC and get some real airplanes back in the Navy--F-14

"Henry J Cobb" wrote in message
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wrote:
Introducing F/A-18E/F makes the open way to combine tanker, CAP and
ASuW missions in a single plane, thus increasing availability of
aircraft for littoral warfare.

So I cannot understand really what is the problem...

The only answer coming to my mind is a difference between training to
carrier-based and land-based deployments.

My fear is that stripping the strike aircraft off of the gators while land
based squadrons are depleted to fill the big decks will leave the Marines
to repeat The Battle Off Samar with a different outcome.

There is no alternative to the F-35B.

-HJC