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Navy Cuts Super Hornet Production to Develop Next-Generation Fighter - USNI News
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...
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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.
Well this paints a pessimistic image for the future of the Super Hornet. It probably affects their chances on foreign markets as well like Germany, Switzerland, Spain, India, Finland and Canada. Combined with the age of the Super Hornet and how US Navy has said they'll stop using the Super Hornet in 2040, it may lead to foreign potential customers declining Super Hornet due to it getting too old and developing and MLUs getting way too expensive for it if the main user has ceased using it. And it is probably likely that this helps seal the deal that Super Hornet will go out of use in 2040.
If no foreign deals are made this year, it means that production lines will be shut down and lead to the cessation of Super Hornet production in its entirety.