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At 30 years old the F/A-18 Super Hornet is far from obsolete - in fact, it’s more relevant than ever. The Navy’s future ...
The Navy’s Super Hornets have guarded the seas for decades, but their time is ending - and the F/A-XX is waiting in the ...
Upgradable and adaptable F/A-18 Super Hornet fighter aircraft are expected to ‘remain relevant for a very long time’, ...
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Why the F/A-18 Super Hornet Still Matters

The advanced aircraft featured a 20 percent larger airframe, which could carry upwards of 33 percent more internal fuel, increasing its mission range by 41 percent and its endurance by 50 percent over ...
An aeronautics professor says videos clearly show a sonic boom. But the U.S. Air Force has denied that any plane went ...
To contextualize the achievement, 12 million flight hours translates into almost 1,370 years, or 500,000 days, of non-stop flying.
The United States is a global military superpower without equal. America’s military supremacy is due to multiple factors, ...
Northrop Grumman released images of its version of the U.S. Navy’s highly anticipated sixth-generation strike fighter. The ...
The 12 million flight hours milestone cements the F/A-18 and EA-18G fleet’s status as one of the most enduring families of ...
November will mark the 30th anniversary of the first flight of the locally-built F/A-18 Super Hornet. The National Museum of Transportation will celebrate the fighter jet’s legacy with a series ...
The US Navy's secretive F/A-XX sixth-generation fighter plane is a bit less secret after program competitor Northrop Grumman ...
Electromagnetic Aircraft Launch System (EMALS) is only found on America's Gerald R. Ford-class carriers, of which there is ...