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

The cause of the friendly fire shoot-down of a Naval Air Station Oceana-based jet over the Red Sea remains a mystery. After ...

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 ...

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 ...

According to multiple sources, the Boeing-made Super Hornet, assigned to Carrier Air ... The carrier operates between twenty-four and thirty-six F/A-18 Super Hornets. "Both pilots were safely ...

After photos of a new large missile being tested emerged in early 2024, last summer Super ... Hornet’ loadout features four AIM-9X high off-boresight heat-seeking missiles, of which two on the F ...

Early Sunday morning local time, the guided-missile cruiser USS Gettysburg mistakenly fired on an F/A-18 Super Hornet flying above the Red Sea, downing the carrier-based fighter in what the US ...

This air-to-air loadout was first seen on a Boeing-made F/A-18 Super Hornet during flight operations aboard the aircraft carrier USS Dwight D. Eisenhower in the Red Sea last April. The Ike and the ...

Both pilots were safely recovered, with one sustaining minor injuries, per CENTCOM. An F/A-18 Super Hornet jet was shot down in an apparent case of friendly fire, CENTCOM said in a statement late ...