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Budget

Navy Still Wants Super Hornets, With Caveats

Valerie Insinna

Monday, July 20th, 2015

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Navy Still Wants Super Hornets, With Caveats

International sales of Boeing's F/A-18E/F Super Hornet fighter jet is helping offset declining domestic revenues. Photo: Boeing.

Reports stating the Defense Department asked Congress to eliminate funding for 12 F/A-18E/F Super Hornet aircraft in next year’s budget have misrepresented the situation, a Navy spokesman told Defense Daily today. The service still would like those jets, but only if Congress funds the entire defense budget in accordance with the president's request.The office of the secretary of defense (OSD) sent a “Department of Defense Conference Appeal” to the House and Senate armed services committees, who are currently reconciling their…

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