Anticipated Air Wing in 2020
The Navy has described an air wing for 2020 as follows:
- 40-50 strike fighters (a combination of F/A-18Cs, F/A-18E/Fs, with F-35C Lightning IIs eventually replacing the F/A-18Cs)
- 4-6 EA-18G Growlers replacing EA-6B Prowlers
- 4-6 E-2D Advanced Hawkeyes
- 2 C-2 Greyhound
- 16 MH-60R Seahawks, including detachments on Strike Group escort ships
- TBD number Unmanned Combat Air Vehicles (UCAV)
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“Neither party expected for the war, the magnitude, or the duration, which it has already attained. Neither anticipated that the cause of the conflict might cease with, or even before, the conflict itself should cease.”
—Abraham Lincoln (1809–1865)
“They may bring their fattest cattle and richest fruits to the fair, but they are all eclipsed by the show of men. These are stirring autumn days, when men sweep by in crowds, amid the rustle of leaves like migrating finches; this is the true harvest of the year, when the air is but the breath of men, and the rustling of leaves is as the trampling of the crowd.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“I could replace
God for awhile, that old ring of candles,
that owl’s wing brushing the dew
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—Denise Levertov (b. 1923)