FRCSW managed to push the Legacy F/A-18’s service hours well beyond its original 6,000-flight-hour expectation, with some ...

In all likelihood, the Super Hornet, a fourth generation fighter jet, will be replaced by a sixth gen fighter. Lockheed Martin, Boeing, and Northrop Grumman are all competing for the contract to ...

The U.S. Navy’s F/A-18 Super Hornet recently refueled Italian F-35B Lightning II fighters during joint exercises between the ...

Perhaps less than 2,000 manned combat aircraft remain to be built as the Air Force pivots evermore to unmanned platforms.

The Navy received its first order of F-14s in 1972, launching from carriers across the globe until it couldn't keep up with newer fighter jets like the F/A-14 Hornet. There were no Tomcats in the ...

Coalition forces have lost more aircraft through accidents than enemy fire. Initial claims that Iraqi forces downed a US Hornet FA-18 fighter jet and a Black Hawk helicopter yesterday have been ...

The heavy loadout, featuring four AIM-174s, three AIM-120s and two AIM-9s, first spotted on "Vandy 1" at the beginning of ...

The M61 is found on many US fighter jets, from the long-retired Convair F-106 Delta Dart and the F-111 Aardvark to the F-14 Tomcat, F-15 Eagle, F/A-18 Hornet, and F-22 Raptor. General Electric ...

One of the most advanced fighter jets in the world will have a new home in Beaufort. Marine Corps Air Station Beaufort is transitioning from the F/18 Hornet to the supersonic F-35Bs whose ...

Malaysia has reportedly sought the Kuwaiti jets since at least 2017. The legacy Hornet is thought to ... past few years in a bid to acquire the fighters. However, the discussions were stymied ...

The U.S. Navy is home to one of the largest and most formidable fleets of aircraft in the world, by a long shot. Its history ...

The wreckage of a U.S. Navy fighter jet that crashed in Washington state ... The aircraft, a variant of the F/A-18 Super Hornet, was part of Electronic Attack Squadron 130, known as the ...