Popular Mechanics: After the F-35, the Navy Will Make Its Next Fighter Without the Air Force
The service has decided its fighter requirements are different than the Air Force’s.
The U.S. Navy’s next fighter will be designed exclusively for naval service and without cooperation that will result in variants for other services. The unnamed fighter, tentatively named F/A-XX, will replace the F/A-18E/F Super Hornet strike fighter on the decks of navy carriers sometime in the 2030s.
Flightglobal, reporting from the Navy League Sea-Air-Space conference in National Harbor, Maryland, states the navy has decided it has different priorities than the U.S. Air Force. Angie Knappenberger, USN deputy director of air warfare, told reporters that the Navy does not plan on using the fighter to penetrate enemy airspace, a key requirement for the U.S. Air Force’s Next Generation Air Dominance (NGAD) jet.
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Update: Future US Navy fighter will not be joint effort with USAF (Flight Global)
WNU Editor: I guess the joint Navy - Air Force effort to develop and produce the F-35 did not work out as expected, and there is no desire to do it again for another fighter.
