The Navy is on track to achieve 341 mission-capable F/A-18 fighter jets by October 2019, Navy Secretary Richard Spencer recently confirmed. During a gaggle with reporters on Capitol Hill earlier this month, Spencer said reaching the Navy's 341 aircraft goal will take the fleet slightly above the 80 percent mission-capable objective Defense Secretary James Mattis directed earlier this year to four of the military's fighter jet fleets. "It is a hip-joint fit in," Spencer said when asked how the 341...
