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Fighter Jets, P-8s Highest On Navy’s Unfunded Priorities Wishlist

Fighter Jets, P-8s Highest On Navy’s Unfunded Priorities Wishlist
A Navy F/A-18 Super Hornet. (Photo: Boeing)

Additional fighter jets, P-8A Poseidons, and Ospreys are at the top of the Navy’s $5.3 billion annual wish list of systems and funding it would like but could not afford to include in the fiscal year 2018 budget submission.In a list delivered to Congress last week, the service noted $1 billion for six additional Boeing [BA] P-8A Poseidon maritime surveillance aircraft, $739 million for 10 more Boeing F/A-18E/F Super Hornets, $540 million for four more Lockheed Martin [LMT] F-35C aircraft,…

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