Just got the new Navy Times in the mail... Not what you wanna see on the cover lol... here is what is in there about the aviation community.
"At worst, according to a recent doomsday projection by House Armed Services Committee Republicans, the Navy could lose 50 ships, more than 7 percent of the force and the carrier variant of the F-35 Lightning II joint strike fighter."
"The triservice F-35 is on nearly everyone's potential spending-cut list. Crenshaw said he thinks the Pentagon should "pick a version and everybody gets it'" But he also thinks the program is too far along to simply cut, particularly given allied purchase commitments. "
"In the aviation arena, readers advocated killing the problem plagued F-35 joint strike fighter - or, at a minimum, eliminating the Marines' vertical-landing-capable variant - and buying more proven F/A - 18E/F Super Hornets."
Now this has been chopped and para-phrased so please read it for yourselves, just wanted to give you guys and gals the scoop! And besides this is all speculation, no one knows anything yet...
