In March 2024, the Navy secured a deal that would acquire 17 Block III F/A-18 Super Hornets from Boeing ... due to the cost ...

And while they may not be stealth aircraft, the U.S. Navy’s older F/A-18 Super Hornet platform would also be called to action in such a conflict. This tried and trusted fighter has served the ...

The Navy’s F/A-18 Super Hornet aircraft will fight on for years to come. The first of seventy-eight new Block III Super Hornets arrived at Naval Air Station Patuxent River this week, ...

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 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 ...

The recent downing of a US Navy F/A-18 Super Hornet over the Red Sea — another victim of an anti-aircraft missile fired by a Navy cruiser — is just beginning to be investigated. But the ...

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