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Hand-me downs from the stuff the Airforce got bored with using?
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basically it's like..... the F-18 and the F-16 both come out around the same time. Air Force looks at them both and says, "We love this F-16, and we think the Hornet is a piece of shit, and it doesn't perform, and we hate it, and it can go to hell." And the Navy said "Well I guess we'll take 1000 of those then."

Mostly the thing of it is, Navy's air fleet is falling apart from old age and ocean air and all the gay Navy buttsex and whatnot.