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An F/A-18 Super Hornet – flying a few miles behind the Hornet that was shot down in a "friendly fire" incident over the Red Sea – took evasive maneuvers after a second surface-to-air missile ...
An F/A-18F Super Hornet takes off from the flight deck of the aircraft carrier USS Harry S. Truman in December. US Navy photo Friendly-fire engagements aren't uncommon occurrences in combat ...
An F/A-18 Super Hornet lands on the USS Dwight D. Eisenhower flight deck in April. US Navy photo An F/A-18 Super Hornet aircraft was shot down in an apparent case of friendly fire, CENTCOM said.
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]
The McDonnell Douglas F/A-18 Hornet is an all-weather supersonic, twin-engine, carrier-capable, multirole combat aircraft, designed as both a fighter and attack aircraft (hence the F/A designation).
In 1996 they were awarded the Battle “E” and Michael J. Estocin Award, as the best F/A-18 squadron in the US Navy. The squadron was then equipped with the F/A-18C(N). In April 1998 VFA-83 was relocated to NAS Oceana, Virginia. During the same year the squadron was deployed aboard USS Dwight D. Eisenhower to the Mediterranean Sea.
The F/A-18 Super Hornet, like the one pictured here, can now carry a modified SM-6 missile known as the AIM-174B. The weapon has a longer range than other American air-to-air missiles and could ...
The AN/APG-79(V)4 has been selected for retrofitting the F/A-18C/D [5] and upgrading the fleets of F/A-18 fighters in Malaysia and the United States Marine Corps. The APG-79(V)4 is the first U.S. fighter radar to use gallium nitride (GaN) transmit/receive modules.