F/A-18 Super Hornet

The U.S. Navy’s F/A-18 Super Hornets just completed initial flight testing with the LITENING advanced targeting pod, a targeting system that improves the accuracy of munitions dropped or fired from...

On July 8, a U.S. Navy F/A-18 Super Hornet aboard the USS Harry S. Truman fell off the carrier’s flattop and into the ocean. Higher than expected winds caused the...

Here’s What You Need to Know: The Finnish navy has no need for carriers, and its reason for existence is primarily coastal defense provided by a small fleet of minelaying and...

Here’s What You Need to Remember: The Navy’s fiscal year 2017 budget request asked for twenty-one new Super Hornets to be added through 2021. The Navy put an additional fourteen Super Hornets on the...

Here’s What You Need to Know: The landing is interesting because Finland, like neighboring Sweden, is an officially neutral country and is not part of NATO, and the country during most...

Key Point: While F/A-18 developers would not suggest the plane could be stealthy, developers did make efforts to lower the radar signature of the aircraft by adding conformal fuel tanks and building a...

Key Point: The Navy has planned for several years to sustain the Super Hornet into the 2040s and beyond. That would allow the Super Hornet to help bridge the gap until larger numbers...

Here’s What You Need to Remember: These upgrades were driven in large measure by the successful performance of the F/A-18 jet as well as a consistent demand for more in recent...

Here’s What You Need to Know: Boeing won a $4 billion contract in 2019 to deliver seventy-eight new Super Hornets to the Navy, at a pace of two fighters per month...

Boeing has delivered the first two operational F/A-18E/F Super Hornet fighter jets to the U.S. Navy. Described by Boeing as “the most networked and survivable F/A-18,” the Block III revision of...

Here’s What You Need To Remember: However, the surplus Eurofighters in the order indicate that Germany is sticking with the aircraft. Effectively, the ninety Tornados will be replaced by forty-five Eurofighters...

U.S. Navy F/A-18 fighter jets were initially built to fly for roughly 6,000 hours. But much of the fleet has wound up hitting or at least preparing for 10,000 hours due to...