Boeing announced that the production of aircraft carrier-based F/A-18 Super Hornet fighter jets, which are widely used on American aircraft carriers, will be stopped from 2025. It has been reported american military news.
St. Petersburg, where the assembly workshop of these aircraft employs about 15.8 thousand people and 1.5 thousand employees are focused on the F / A-18 program. He states that he is in St. Louis. All of them will be reallocated to other production programs, Boeing spokesperson Deborah Van Nirop said.
Boeing St. Louis chief executive Steve Nordlund said the company had previously announced the halt of aircraft production to reduce the purchase of long lead-time components and allow time for employee retraining.
At the same time, the maintenance and modernization of aircraft already built can take “decades”. In addition, if these aircraft are purchased by the Indian Navy, the production of new F/A-18s can be extended until 2027.
Previously reportedUS Navy engineers repaired the F/A-18E Super Hornet on a combat mission for the first time in history, the first technical operation of its kind.
It was noted that the plane belonged to the air wing of the USS George HW Bush aircraft carrier. In August 2022, the aircraft’s right engine caught fire in flight, causing significant fire and thermal damage to the door, ventilation grille, frames, cladding, engine compartment and “all related equipment”.
Typically, such damage results in the aircraft not being operated until the end of the campaign and then being removed from the aircraft carrier and sent to the factory. But this time, the pilots convinced the engineers to fix the car on their own. As a result, the car was restored within 30 days, and the condition of the combat unit has not changed.