Check this out. It ought to give you plenty of gouge on USMC air plan. Specifically check out page 2.3.2
In other words, the Marines are punting on AEA.
Am I wrong? AM I WRONG?"Leveraging future capabilities" is the preferred nomenclature, please, Dude.
Yeah? Flying what? The 18-Ds at -106 are falling apart at the seams. They don't have enough life in the frames to make it to 2020...much less 2025.Surprisingly enough though that won't be the end of Marine NFO's as originally planned, the latest USMC air plan has the VMFA(AW) squadrons sticking around until FY25 or later.
Yeah? Flying what? The 18-Ds at -106 are falling apart at the seams. They don't have enough life in the frames to make it to 2020...much less 2025.
Here's my preseason prediction...the MC WILL be flying two seat Super Hornets before 2020. Granted, they will be the old, shitty ones the Navy discards, but SHs none the less.
The odds of the Marine Corps buying super hornets are probably lower now than any time in the last twenty years.Yeah? Flying what? The 18-Ds at -106 are falling apart at the seams. They don't have enough life in the frames to make it to 2020...much less 2025.
Unless the MC isn't concerned about safety...or catastrophic losses.
Here's my preseason prediction...the MC WILL be flying two seat Super Hornets before 2020. Granted, they will be the old, shitty ones the Navy discards, but SHs none the less.
No problem putting whatever pictures of planes you want, but you're not going to fly a GR9 no matter how starry eyed you are.Out of curiosity, wouldn't the repercussions of switching over to the Growler be quite high in terms of displaced NFOs? The Growler seats two, what would happen to the other two NFOs?
Also, I've noticed a fair amount of folks with their current or desired aircraft as an avatar... Is this restricted to Pilots and NFOs only, or can us starry-eyed college students put them up? I wasn't sure and I don't want to overstep boundaries or break rules, but I couldn't find anything regarding that.
And yet they're still flying their Prowlers, and will be for sometime yet. Recall that airframe was flying during Linebacker II.Yeah? Flying what? The 18-Ds at -106 are falling apart at the seams. They don't have enough life in the frames to make it to 2020...much less 2025.
Really!?Unless the MC isn't concerned about safety...
Not sure where the supers you mention are going to come from. The Navy is going to need every BuNo it can scrounge up to get them to the mythical JSF deployment.Here's my preseason prediction...the MC WILL be flying two seat Super Hornets before 2020. Granted, they will be the old, shitty ones the Navy discards, but SHs none the less.