F/A-18 Super Hornet: The U.S. Navy's Enhanced ... key element for any bird operating on an aircraft carrier. The slower speed also helps with landing a plane on a moving flight deck.

The U.S. Air Force passed over the YF-17 prototype to select the F-16 fighter jet. But the U.S. Navy made it the F/A-18 Hornet.

The U.S. Navy’s podded Infrared Search And Track System, or IRST, planned for its F/A-18E/F Super Hornet fighters, has ...

Launching from a carrier far out at sea limits the options pilots have for landing to refuel ... edging out the F/A-18 Super Hornet at 570 nm in the air-to-air mission configuration.

It was a routine, twice-weekly flight from Iran to Dubai, where the Airbus 300 airliner would fly just 30 minutes across the Persian Gulf before landing ... a US Navy F/A-18 Super Hornet over ...