With Super Hornets Showing Their Years, Navy Rethinks Refueling Mission
August 14 2015
A top U.S. Navy official says the service is re-evaluating the use of F/A-18E/F Super Hornets as aerial tankers as the aircraft approach the end of their planned 6,000-hour service lives several years sooner than expected, reports USNI News.
Super Hornets perform the tanking mission when air wings are deployed.
High operational tempos and a smaller legacy F/A-18 Hornet fleet -- with many of the aircraft still awaiting their service-life-extension maintenance work -- have...
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