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  2. Boeing F/A-18E/F Super Hornet - Wikipedia

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    The Super Hornet is an enlarged redesign of the McDonnell Douglas F/A-18 Hornet.The wing and tail configuration trace its origin to a Northrop prototype aircraft, the P-530, c. 1965, which began as a rework of the lightweight Northrop F-5E (with a larger wing, twin tail fins and a distinctive leading edge root extension, or LERX). [4]

  3. McDonnell Douglas F/A-18 Hornet - Wikipedia

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    Since this upgrade gave the plane a ground-attack capability, the Finnish Air Force also started to refer to the plane as "F/A-18" rather than just "F-18". [ 86 ] With a service life of 30 years, the Hornets are to remain in active service until 2025–2030. [ 87 ]

  4. Fog of war: The US Navy's Red Sea Super Hornet ... - AOL

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    The F/A-18 is a multi-role fighter jet made by US defense contractor Boeing that has been in service with the Navy for decades. A single aircraft is estimated to cost around $60 million.

  5. 2012 Virginia Beach F/A-18 crash - Wikipedia

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    He said, "the pilots ejected at the last possible second in an apparent effort to make sure that the plane would not crash into a nearby school". [1] The F/A-18 plowed into the Mayfair Mews apartment complex that houses about 100 residents, located less than 3 mi (4.8 km) from the departure end of the runway. Total flight time was 70 seconds. [2]

  6. A US Navy missile cruiser shot down a Super Hornet over the ...

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    A $55.7 million F/A-18 Super Hornet aircraft was shot down over the Red Sea in an apparent case of friendly fire, CENTCOM said in a statement.

  7. 'Murder Hornet': The Navy's got a new nickname for the ... - AOL

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    This air-to-air loadout was first seen on a Boeing-made F/A-18 Super Hornet during flight operations aboard the aircraft carrier USS Dwight D. Eisenhower in the Red Sea last April.

  8. McDonnell Douglas F/A-18 Hornet in Australian service

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    Deliveries were planned to start in late 1984 and be completed in 1990. [18] The total cost of the F/A-18 program, including the aircraft, spare parts, other equipment and modifications to the RAAF's fighter bases, was calculated as A$2.427 billion in August 1981, but was rapidly revised upwards due to the depreciation of the Australian dollar ...

  9. How the US Navy's first hostile drone kill with an air-to-air ...

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    The office of the Chief of Naval Operations later identified a Boeing-made F/A-18 with a nine-missile configuration as a "Murder Hornet," a play on the fighter jet's actual name, the Super Hornet.