US Navy air boss outlines vision for carrier-based sixth-generation fighter

F-35Cs on catapult USS Nimitz c US Navy

Source: US Navy

Although its future remains a subject of budgetary debate in Washington, the US Navy’s top aviator says the service still plans to field a purpose-built carrier-based sixth-generation jet to replace its fourth-generation strike fighters.

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