The lessons the Navy garners from bringing the unmanned tanker to the carrier air wing should help the service inform the way ahead on a next-generation fighter to eventually replace its tactical aircraft, according to the head of naval aviation. Vice Adm. Mike Shoemaker, the chief of naval air forces, said he hasn't been intimately involved in the Navy's F/A-XX Next-Generation Air Dominance Analysis, an ongoing effort to analyze potential replacements for the F/A-18E/F Super Hornets and E/A-18G Growlers when...
