The Super Hornet, assigned to VFA-87 on the USS Gerald R. Ford, got a kill marking for taking out a Syrian Su-22 in 2017.

The US Navy's strike fighters go head-to-head.

A U.S. Navy F/A-18 Super Hornet accelerates from a dead stop to flight speed in a matter of seconds, propelled by a steam catapult on the deck of an aircraft carrier. That violent burst of energy, ...

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The Gerald R. Ford International Airport said the jet touched down and took off on Sunday as part of training.

Two navy aircraft from the USS Nimitz aircraft carrier crashed just 30 minutes apart into the South China sea over the weekend – but all five crew members from both craft were mercifully rescued ...

An American-origin F/A-18 fighter jet, and not surface-to-air missiles (SAMs) as initially believed, had taken out the three F-15E Strike Eagles in a friendly fire incident in Kuwaiti airspace on ...

Chief of Naval Operations Daryl Caudle stressed that the sixth-gen fighter jet was urgently needed to replace the US Navy’s existing fleet of F/A-18 Super Hornets and EA-18G Growlers. The US Navy ...

The two fighters are tailored to the needs of their respective services; the F-16 is fast and lightweight, while the F/A-18 is better suited to carrier operations. The General Dynamics F-16 Fighting ...

An F/A-18 operates over the Red Sea.US Air Force photo by Staff Sgt. Gerald R. Willis A US Navy pilot whose jet was mistakenly shot down by an American warship over the Red Sea told investigators he ...