The jet, 168912, which in 2017 scored the first Super Hornet air to air kill and the first U.S. air to air kill since 1999, was seen in official footage launching from the USS Gerald R. Ford, ...

The USS Theodore Roosevelt cut through Pacific waters under a deceptively calm morning sky. Flight deck crews performed ...

A Kuwaiti F/A-18 Hornet aircraft is suspected to have accidentally shot down three US F-15s amid ongoing tensions with Iran.

Key Points and Summary - The U.S. Navy’s F/A-18 Hornet and Super Hornet are far older than most of the pilots flying them, yet a decade of Service Life Extension Programs has pushed their airframes ...

To contextualize the achievement, 12 million flight hours translates into almost 1,370 years, or 500,000 days, of non-stop flying. The F/A-18 Hornet—the main fighter jet platform operated by both the ...

One interesting observation that both pilots shared from their Red Sea deployment was that the Navy relied heavily on the F/A-18’s ability to refuel other aircraft to enhance mission endurance. In ...

The F/A-18 Hornet is an all-weather supersonic, twin-engine, carrier-capable, multirole combat aircraft. It is designed as both a fighter and ground attack craft, which is why it has the F/A ...