Jesse Sloman, research assistant at the Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments (CSBA, fear that marine aviation is at risk of slowly breaking under the load. “The Marine Corps is most likely to experience critical gaps in the future in aviation readiness and modernization,” he warns. “Two of the Corps’ most important new platforms, the F-35 and the CH-53K, have suffered from cost overruns and delays sufficient to force the Corps to fly some of its legacy platforms (the F/A-18, AV-8, and CH-53) far longer than intended.”…
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