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S8 Ep348: GUEST: Rebecca Grant. SUMMARY: Grant discusses the Navy's pursuit of new stealth fighter aircraft with 25% greater range. She explains that this extended range is crucial for survival, allowing carriers to operate further away and evade Chinese missile ta

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🗓️ 21 January 2026

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GUEST: Rebecca Grant. SUMMARY: Grant discusses the Navy's pursuit of new stealth fighter aircraft with 25% greater range. She explains that this extended range is crucial for survival, allowing carriers to operate further away and evade Chinese missile targeting while maintaining the ability to launch offensive strikes against ships and bases.
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with Indeed. This is John Batchel john bachelor conversation with colleague rebecca grant of the

0:39.8

lexington institute about the navy looking for a new aircraft for their carriers that extends range

0:47.0

25 percent range of the aircraft the fighter aircraft the the updated aircraft.

0:55.2

Why is this important?

0:56.8

Rebecca explains.

0:58.6

It's about survival.

1:02.2

Yes, that makes it much harder for the Chinese.

1:06.5

So the carrier, because it's nuclear powered, can steam at about 35 knots.

1:11.6

That means it can cover several hundred square miles of ocean at any one point in time. That's a problem for the Chinese because they have to calculate the time of flight if they can even track and target that carrier,

1:17.6

which is very difficult to do, especially with our ability to do some space-based interference in Chinese targeting.

1:25.6

Then they have to have enough time for that missile to fly out.

1:27.8

And in the 10 or 20 or 30 minutes of that Chinese missile is getting ready to go and heading

1:32.6

for its target, the carrier has moved from its previous location.

1:37.2

Add the range to the air wing, and that becomes even more possible to do.

1:41.9

Also, you know, the role of the carrier is actually to strike. It's an offensive

1:45.4

platform to hit Chinese targets, ships, bases, anything that it might need to hit in the event of war.

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