The U.S. Navy’s F/A-18 Super Hornet Service Life Extension Program has extended the aircraft from 6,000 flight hours all the way to 10,000 — buying years of additional service life for a 1970s ...

The venerable Super Hornet will be displaced by a sixth-generation fighter, and it couldn't happen soon enough.

The Naval Air Warfare Center Aircraft Division (NAWCAD) and Fleet Readiness Center Southwest (FRCSW) ...

WASHINGTON — The U.S. Senate has passed a bipartisan resolution recognizing 30 years of service by the F/A-18 Super Hornet, marking the anniversary of the aircraft’s first flight from Lambert Field in ...

Today, the aircraft is still seen to be assigned to Strike Fighter Squadron 87 (VFA-87), which is attached to Carrier Air Wing 8 (CVW-8) on board the USS Gerald R. Ford (CVN-78). The Ford was rushed ...

The F-15 was designed first and foremost as an air superiority fighter. Speed, altitude, range, and payload were prioritized, without much attention paid to air-to-ground capabilities. The F/A-18, ...

These are the approximate positions of the U.S. Navy’s deployed carrier strike groups and amphibious ready groups throughout ...

An F/A-18 Super Hornet assigned to the aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln fired a precision munition into the vessel's engineering and steering spaces.

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