Marine Test Pilots Prefer F-35 Over F-18 -- Aol Defense
Patuxent River NAS: With all the cost overruns, schedule delays and political wrangling over the F-35 program, Boeing has been trying to pitch the F-18 Super Hornet to countries that be growing weary of all this turmoil.
When my colleague Carlo Munoz spoke with Boeing Military Aircraft's Chris Chadwick about all this recently, Chadwick put the case for buying the F-18 this way.
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