More new kids on the block discover all-kinds-of-fun when you do barrel work and or other refurb efforts on legacy Hornets.
Complicating the effort was an assumption made by the Navy decades ago that the Hornet, as a composite aircraft, wouldn’t require the same level of corrosion-prevention work as older, mostly metal planes, such as the F-14 Tomcat, A-6 Intruder and the A-7 Corsair II, Manazir said.
Yes, well, the light-weight-fighter program (F-16, F-18) thought of in The Cold War, assumed you needed less expensive jets fast. While the early fielding of the classic Hornet in the fleet showed a lot less maintenance man-hours per flight hour than anything on the deck in regard to tac-air, it came at a price. The light weight fighter program assumed you flew the jet x-amount of hours then threw it in the trash.
If you want a depot jet with long-range maintenance management in mind, you build that in from the start, like, the F-15.
In any event, I suspect we can have two squadrons of Super Hornets on the deck for future deployments and no classic Hornets or F-35s.
Well, that means your aviation fuel and bomb bunkers won't have to be replenished as much with two-Super squadrons and a Super EA-18G Det.
That's a big win on the carrier air wing purse and Excel spreadsheet right?
With the Super Hornet being the only thing left, please also remember that 1/3rd of all Super Hornet sorties...
...are as a recovery tanker.
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