The Super Hornet, assigned to VFA-87 on the USS Gerald R. Ford, got a kill marking for taking out a Syrian Su-22 in 2017.

A U.S. Navy F/A-18 Super Hornet accelerates from a dead stop to flight speed in a matter of seconds, propelled by a steam catapult on the deck of an aircraft carrier. That violent burst of energy, ...

Key Points and Summary - The F/A-18E/F Super Hornet—born in the 1990s to replace aging F-14s and legacy Hornets—heads for its final production run as Boeing fulfills a last Navy order of 17 jets.

The Gerald R. Ford International Airport said the jet touched down and took off on Sunday as part of training.

An American-origin F/A-18 fighter jet, and not surface-to-air missiles (SAMs) as initially believed, had taken out the three F-15E Strike Eagles in a friendly fire incident in Kuwaiti airspace on ...

Two navy aircraft from the USS Nimitz aircraft carrier crashed just 30 minutes apart into the South China sea over the weekend – but all five crew members from both craft were mercifully rescued ...

This was most likely the source of that loud boom on Sunday afternoon. GRR confirmed a Navy F-18 was training in the area. Video credit: Emily Covert ...

Chief of Naval Operations Daryl Caudle stressed that the sixth-gen fighter jet was urgently needed to replace the US Navy’s existing fleet of F/A-18 Super Hornets and EA-18G Growlers. The US Navy ...

The two fighters are tailored to the needs of their respective services; the F-16 is fast and lightweight, while the F/A-18 is better suited to carrier operations. The General Dynamics F-16 Fighting ...

After months of delay, Hegseth has reportedly greenlit the U.S. Navy’s F/A-XX program, with a selection expected as soon as this week. After months of delays and speculation, the U.S. Department of ...