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.

And while they may not be stealth aircraft, the U.S. Navy’s older F/A-18 ... the Super Hornet can pack a punch. The F/A-18E/F can lug nearly 17,800 pounds of weapons, including AIM-120 Advanced ...