To put it in painfully stark terms, the long-term viability of America’s carrier strike groups in high-end fights now rests pretty squarely on the F/A-XX program’s shoulders… But now, the White House is saying that America can only effectively manage one new high-end fighter program at a time, shelving the Navy’s F/A-XX effort indefinitely to focus solely on the Air Force’s Raptor replacement… And it’s clear that the Navy is not very happy with this decision. So, let’s see if we can’t parse our way through what’s really going on with the Navy’s F/A-XX 6th generation fighter program.