As the US Navy transitioned away from specialized fighter aircraft, it systematically overhauled the F/A-18 to serve in ...

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Northrop’s YF-17 “Cobra” lost the U.S. Air Force’s 1970s Lightweight Fighter competition to the YF-16, but it went on to ...

The U.S. Navy has a series of aerial platforms in use, but its main strike fighter is the F/A-18 E/F Super Hornet. The plane arrived back in the 1990s as a replacement for the Grumman F-14 Tomcat and ...

The U.S. Navy is continuing to test the new AIM-174B missile, derived from the SM-6, aboard the Super Hornet, with a VX-9 jet carrying four AIM-174s, three AIM-120s and two AIM-9Xs. A U.S. Navy ...

American aerospace giant Boeing is at the center of attention these days for all the wrong reasons, but that doesn't mean there aren't aspects of the business that don't go as planned. Like, say, the ...

April 28 (UPI) --An F/A-18E fighter on Monday rolled off the side of the USS Harry S. Truman aircraft carrier and sank to the bottom of the Red Sea in the Middle East, the U.S. Navy said. All ...

For the second time in just over a week, a U.S. Navy fighter jet from the USS Harry S. Truman aircraft carrier has been lost in the Red Sea, according to USA TODAY. A defense official confirmed an F/A ...

The F/A-18E/F Super Hornet has been the U.S. Navy’s workhorse since 1999. Larger and more capable than its predecessor the original Hornet, it brings a bigger airframe, more fuel, increased payload, ...

In the modern era of air warfare, specialized attack aircraft are needed to counter enemy air defenses—and the EA-18G Growler is the best plane in the world for this task.