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THE PENTAGON – The Navy wants to truncate production of the legacy F/A-18E/F Super Hornet in favor of pumping money into accelerating the development of its long-gestating next-generation carrier-based fighter program, the service revealed in its Fiscal Year 2021 budget request.
Next year’s order of two dozen F/A-18E/F Super Hornets would be the last on the books for the Navy under this plan. In 2019, Super Hornet maker Boeing won a $4-billion multi-year contract to buy 78 Super Hornets through FY 2021.
According to the justification in the documents, the money the Navy for planned a subsequent multiyear buy of 36 Super Hornets from FY 2022 to 2024 would be rerouted to “accelerated development of Next Generation Air Dominance (NGAD) and other key aviation wholeness investments,” read the documents.
The cut of the Super Hornets past FY 2021 is estimated to route $4.5 billion over the five-year horizon of the Future Years Defense Plan (FYDP) to the new aviation effort.
“The decision to cease F/A-18 procurement after FY 2021 ensures the Carrier Air Wing will maintain capable strike fighter capacity to pace the most stressing threats through the 2030s,” read the Navy documents.
The NGAD program, previously known as F/A-XX, has sought to replace the payload capacity of the Super Hornets on carrier decks as the incoming F-35C Lighting II Joint Strike Fighter brings a stealthy fighter to the air wing. The program has had fits and starts over the last decade as the service has grappled with shaping the future of the air wing.
Chief of Naval Operations Adm. Mike Gilday said late last year said the service was still thinking about how it would move forward with carrier aviation.
“I do think we need an aviation combatant, but what the aviation combatant of the future looks like? I don’t know yet. I think there’s going to be a requirement to continue to deliver a seaborne launched vehicle through the air that’ll deliver an effect downrange,” Gilday said at U.S. Naval Institute’s Defense Forum Washington conference.
“I do think that that will likely be a mix of manned and unmanned. The platform which they launch from? I’m not sure what that’s going to look like.”
Orel, yo no estaba dudando de lo que tu decías sobre la compra de F35 y F15, sino de la noticias en si, pues yo también la leí. Lo que digo es que la USAF tenia previsto comprar 24 F35 mas este año y al final ese dinero se ha ido a F15EX y otras actualizaciones.
¿Alguien me puede decir las diferencias y similitudes entre el F-15EX y el Silent Eagle que se propuso hace unos años?
Could potentially impact the German Boeing pitch for F/A-18 Super Hornet: USN wants to end SH-procurement after FY21, putting money instead into development of NGAD (F/A-XX).
The US Air Force plans to launch a mission computer and display system upgrade for 610 F-16s, all of which belong to the post-Block (40/42/50/52) series. It appears more than 300 pre-Block F-16s could be retired over the FYDP, but it's not clear.
After completing phase 1 deliveries of APG-83 AESA radars for 72 F-16s next year, USAF plans to begin phase 2. It will upgrade 330 more F-16s with APG-83s, along with wiring and computer upgrades unavailable during phase 1. So, 402 total F-16s will be upgraded with AESA radars.
La razón es obvia...es lo que tienen los cuarta a estas alturas.
https://www.revistaejercitos.com/2020/0 ... ero-naval/
No era este pero buenoOrel escribió:Buena estrategia, Milites
El Mig-29/-35 ya tiene capacidad de aterrizaje automático... estos avances acercan poquito a poco a la posibilidad de opcionalmente tripulados:
14yellow14 escribió:Planes de la USAF para modernizar parte de sus F-16
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Northrop Grumman Systems Corp., Linthicum Heights, Maryland, has been awarded a $262,281,057 firm-fixed price modification (P00027) to previously awarded contract FA8615-17-C-6047 for Active Electronically Scanned Array radars of Air Force F-16 aircraft. This modification is for the exercise of options to include 15 engineering, manufacturing and development and 90 production radars, as well as associated support equipment and spares. Work will be performed at Linthicum Heights, Maryland, and is expected to be completed by Dec. 2022. The total cumulative face value of the contract is $553,448,803. Fiscal 2020 research and development funds in the amount of $34,182,567; fiscal 2018 procurement funds in the amount of $88,201,189; and fiscal 2020 procurement funds in the amount of $197,955,911 are being obligated at the time of award. The Air Force Life Cycle Management Center, Fighter Bomber Directorate, F-16 Division, Wright Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio, is the contracting activity.
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