As the U.S. prepares for a potential future fight with China, naval aviation is at its highest state of readiness in at least a decade, an official said today, despite supply chain and sustainment challenges affecting the domestic industrial base, and subsequently, critical platforms for aviation. Even with challenges to aircraft carrier production rates and delivery setbacks, naval aviation has a “playbook,” Naval Air Forces Commander Vice. Adm. Daniel Cheever said today. “We have a good playbook when there is...
