Just Totally Amazing: The Boeing F/A-18E and F/A-18F Super Hornet are advanced variants of the original ... to the F-35 Lightning II thereafter. F/A-18 Super Hornet: The U.S. Navy's Enhanced ...
The air-defense loadout, the name for which was made official in Navy documentation, consists of four AIM-9X and five AIM-120 air-to-air missiles.
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.
Summary and Key Points: The F-14 Tomcat and F/A-18 Super Hornet are iconic U.S. Navy aircraft ... reaching speeds up to Mach 2.34. However, it had reliability issues and a tendency to enter ...