The U.S. Navy has completed the first live-fire test of a new Advanced Anti-Radiation Guided Missile – Extended Range (AARGM-ER). The missile was successfully launched from a U.S. Navy F/A-18 Super ...

For several years now NASA has been working on something called the X-59 QueSST. We're talking about an experimental aircraft meant to test a new design and new technologies for civilian supersonic ...

Key Points and Summary: The F/A-18E/F Super Hornet was born from urgency: replace aging Navy jets, fly from tight decks, and do everything reasonably well. -It delivered—bigger lungs, tougher bones, ...

The Fleet Readiness Center Southwest completed its first fully in-house Block III Super Hornet upgrade, combining the work with the ongoing Service Life Modification effort. The Fleet Readiness Center ...

Enlisted Marines with Hornet specialties will be offered retraining, reassignment or career dead ends.

A fighter jet can pull many Gs, which is why back in the mid-80s, there was such a sudden concern shortly after the Navy first deployed the Hornet. It was discovered during testing that there was a ...

The F/A-18 has been able to carry out most of the Navy's requirements while being affordable, although it is increasingly ...

Kay and Associates will provide maintenance, management and operation support services for Kuwait’s fleet of F/A-18 multirole fighter aircraft under a potential one-year, $153.4 million contract ...

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A Wall Street Journal’s report, quoting people familiar with the friendly fire incident, says a Kuwaiti F/A-18 might be responsible for the loss of three U.S. F-15Es. As we previously reported, three ...

NAVAIR engineers are working to extendF/A-18 Hornets from 6,000 to 10,000 lifetime flight hours at Fleet Readiness Center Southwest in San Diego. About 40 F/A-18 A-D Hornets went through upgrades at ...

The F/A-18 Hornet is a twin-engine, supersonic, all-weather, multirole fighter; it can do a bit of everything – and has done a bit of everything, from air superiority, to air-to-ground, to ...