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HASC: F-35C lacks the range to strike enemy targets

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The U.S. House Armed Services Committee has directed the Navy to report back by 2019 on how to “expand the strike range of a carrier air wing in a contested environment.” After concluding that the F-35C’s current range will not allow it to strike enemy targets without putting the carrier in harm’s way.

170907-N-CT127-0021 ATLANTIC OCEAN (Sept. 7, 2017) An F-35C Lightning II assigned to the "Grim Reapers" of Strike Fighter Squadron (VFA 101) prepares to launch from the flight deck of the Nimitz-class aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln (CVN 72). Abraham Lincoln is underway conducting training after its successful completion of carrier incremental availability. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 1st Class Josue Escobosa/Released)
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ATLANTIC OCEAN (Sept. 7, 2017) An F-35C Lightning II assigned to the “Grim Reapers” of Strike Fighter Squadron (VFA 101) prepares to launch from the flight deck of the Nimitz-class aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln (CVN 72). Abraham Lincoln is underway conducting training after its successful completion of carrier incremental availability. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 1st Class Josue Escobosa/Released)

NASA says Boeing depended ‘almost entirely’ on Navy to fix physiological episodes

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NASA’s review into the unexplained physiological episodes occurring on the U.S. Navy’s F/A-18 and EA-18G fleet concluded that Boeing depended ‘almost entirely’ on the sailing branch to fix the issues.

U.S. Navy F-A-18 Super Hornets are parked close together on the flight deck of the aircraft carrier USS Enterprise (CVN 65) as the ship operates in the Atlantic Ocean on Oct 121030-N-FI736-011
By DoD photo by Petty Officer 3rd Class Scott Pittman, U.S. Navy. (Released) [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons
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