re: #250 Great White Snark

Not quite. We don’t have 5th generation fighters for our bombers protection. We have them to own the air everyplace we fight. Except over water which of course would be naval aviation.

The reason the Navy no longer has A-6E Intruder bombers is not because the Navy considered them obsolete: It was because they could carry 48,000 pounds of bombs (nearly the same as an Air Force B-52). The Air Force complained the Navy was fielding “strategic bombers,” which is in the bailiwick of the Air Force (never mind the range distance between B-52’s and A-6E’s).

Instead, the Navy gets the F/A-18 as a replacement, which is inferior to either the A-6E or F-14 fighter jet, to assuage the Air Force’s fee-fees.