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, ...
If the Super Hornet is the workhorse, then the Navy's F-35C is a quarterback on the battlefield. Although the Lightning II is ...
Long delays to get parts for F/A-18 fighters and Virginia-class submarines have forced maintainers to strip from other ...
Both platforms are experiencing delays likely to persist into the next decade.
An F/A-18 operates over the Red Sea.US Air Force photo by Staff Sgt. Gerald R. Willis A US Navy pilot whose jet was mistakenly shot down by an American warship over the Red Sea told investigators he ...
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 ...
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 United States is preparing to test a new hypersonic missile that could dramatically ...