NEW HOPE FOR THE SUPER HORNET

As President Donald Trump taunts the F-35 program with talk of a face-off against the Super Hornet, Combat Aircraft looks at the realistic prospects for the Boeing fighter.

THE US NAVY has never made a huge secret of its reservations about the Lockheed Martin F-35C carrier variant of the Joint Strike Fighter. While F-35 advocates will say the US Navy is living in the past, the single-engine argument is one that will never go away.

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