As the US locks in the long-delayed F/A-XX, the program has become a test of whether its carrier airpower can avoid strategic erosion in a Pacific increasingly shaped by China’s scale, proximity and mass. This month, the US Senate Committee on Appropriations moved to lock in the revival of the US Navy’s long-delayed F/A-XX next-generation […]
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