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 F/A-18 Hornet has long been one of the U.S. Navy's most powerful all-weather, carrier-capable, multirole combat aircraft. The F/A-18 entered active service in 1983 for the U.S. Marine Corps ...

Sailors prepare an F/A-18F Super Hornet, attached to the ‘Red Rippers’ of Strike Fighter Squadron (VFA) 11, to take off from the flight deck of the Nimitz-class aircraft carrier USS Harry S.

Eisenhower aircraft carrier, struck a Houthi ... A ‘Murder Hornet’ F/A-18E assigned to the USS Theodore Roosevelt landing at an airbase in Jordan, clearly showing its unique heavy air-to ...

The latest iteration, the Block III “Super ‘Duper’ Hornet,” features... Summary: The F/A-18 Hornet, a carrier-based multirole aircraft, has been a significant player in U.S. naval aviation ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...