Boeing Offers Additional F/A-18 Sale to U.S. Navy

It is demanded in the procurement "process" - to get new you must show
that the old is no longer relevant and there
problem is some folks try to help that along




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Interesting theory and I have heard something similar back in 2004 or
2005. I don't know how much of this is true however.

On May 2, 9:41 pm, "Flashnews" wrote:
You know considering how the Navy chose to deliberately go about
destroying anything and everything "old" that would interfere with
their
plan to modernize the Navy - a politically motivated behavior seen in
the demise of the Convair B-58 Hustlers as a retribution act to match
to
the destruction of all the Northrop Flying Wings. I am not so sure
the
Iranians can really get or want those F-14 parts from AMARC (if it
were
even possible) but it is possible that the F-14D could be refurbished
into an even stronger jet that would embarrass first the F/A-18 and
then
much worse the F-35, especially given its failing components and
subsystems. The methodology is all the same - over kill the hype
about
how old and broken the airframe is, selectively shut down spares and
key
component supply, and make the program look like a mess. The F-14D
can
still fly circles around all other Navy fighters and if it would be
given some of the reliability and maintainability upgrades evident in
the E/F as well as the AESA upgrade from the F-35 - well the old
Turkey
would smile a new light on Naval Air. As long as anyone can look
back
the present breed of Naval air leadership is petrified - absolutely
paranoid - of not only that it can't do the Tomcat's job with what's
left but what the F-14 could still grow beyond itself. The demise of
the Tomcat will be the date in which carrier aviation became
unbalanced - with new fast nuclear ships and a weak unsupportive air
wing - thus bringing the submarine one notch closer to replacing the
surface fleet as the critical combatant lead. "Choose Wisely" and
they
did not -