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Capt. David Kindley, the Navy's F/A-18 program manager, called the upcoming block III version of the Super Hornet "the Swiss Army knife of the future carrier fleet," capable of doing high-end air-to-air missions and lower-end bombing runs.

The complication with being an aircraft that can do it all, is training to do it all. "It is a really big challenge because there are a lot of mission sets that we need to be going after," he said. Plus, "we need a ton of reps and sets to be really proficient."

Lack of range time, a paucity of aircraft and the fact that...