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Navy Chief Outlines Vision For Next Generation F/A-XX Fighter

Defense Daily Staff

Wednesday, February 4th, 2015

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Navy Chief Outlines Vision For Next Generation F/A-XX Fighter

An E/A-18 Growler electronic attack aircraft in the foreground shadowed by a F/A-18E/F Super Hornet. (Photo: Boeing)

The Navy’s future fighter jet, known as the F/A-XX, must look beyond technologies of today such as stealth, have a flexible design so it can be manned or pilotless and won't have to be "super-duper fast," Chief of Naval Operations Adm. Jonathan Greenert said Wednesday.Even as the Navy, along with the Air Force and Marine Corps, is in the early stages of buying Lockheed Martin’s [LMT] F-35 Joint Strike Fighter, a stealth fifth-generation aircraft expected to be operational for five…

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