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Boeing’s F/A-XX design sacrifices stealth for safer carrier landings

A carrier fighter does not get to be brilliant only at high speed. It also has to arrive back at the ship under control, at low speed, over a short deck that is moving in three dimensions. That is why ...
Carrier fighters do not get to chase stealth in the same way land-based jets can. The moment an aircraft must survive ...
The United States Navy supercarrier USS Gerald R. Ford will head to Crete for repairs, as amphibious assault ship USS Tripoli ...