Super Tomcat or Super Hornet?

[Bort]

Use a A-6 or A-7 and you don't need the tanker! Hell they could be the tanker!

Good point TLAM strike! In my opinion the best possible solution to the Navy's needs would've been the advanced F-14 and the A-6F, which would have had digital avionics and GE F404 turbofans, the same kind as in the F-18, which would have given the A-6 even more range and payload. Too bad both programs were cancelled by Dick "five deferments" Cheney while he was SecDef. Dick also cancelled the A-12, pretty much dooming the Navy to the Super Hornet. The advanced F-14 and A-6F would provide vastly superior capability to the F-18C/E/F that we're stuck with now, and probably at a much lower cost. Thanks alot Dick.