Boeing replaced the original Hornet’s oval air intakes with rectangular air intakes. Boeing made further tweaks to the original design to make the Super Hornet more maneuverable than its ...

The air-defense loadout, the name for which was made official in Navy documentation, consists of four AIM-9X and five AIM-120 ...

and redesigned engine intakes make it more difficult to detect. Its powerful Mission Computers (MCs) process more data, faster. All of these upgrades have turned the Super Hornet into an ...

Aviation Structural Mechanic 3rd Class Colton Howel of Cadiz, atomized an F/A-18E Super Hornet, assigned to the Golden ...

An F/A-18 Super Hornet – flying a few miles behind the Hornet that was shot down – was forced to take evasive maneuvers after a second surface-to-air missile was fired from the cruiser USS ...

The Navy is already analyzing and training to prevent a repeat of a December friendly fire incident that saw USS Gettysburg ...

As already reported, on Dec. 22, 2024, an F/A-18F Super Hornet, embarked aboard USS Harry S. Truman, was shot down in what the U.S. Central Command called “an apparent case of friendly fire”.

The F/A-18 Super Hornet launched from the aircraft carrier USS Harry S. Truman was shot down by apparent “friendly fire” from the guided-missile cruiser USS Gettysburg on Dec. 22. Although the ...

The U.S. Navy is now officially using “Murder Hornet” to refer to F/A-18E/F fighters armed with five AIM-120 Advanced Medium ...

A US Navy cruiser mistakenly shot down a friendly Super Hornet fighter jet over the Red Sea on Sunday amid the US military's intensive operations on the Houthis. A Chinese military expert said the ...

An F/A-18 Super Hornet jet was shot down in an apparent case of friendly fire, CENTCOM said in a statement late Saturday. The incident occurred over the Red Sea in the early hours of Sunday ...