The air-defense loadout, the name for which was made official in Navy documentation, consists of four AIM-9X and five AIM-120 ...
Super Hornets, which have been armed with five AIM-120s and four AIM-9Xs since April 2024, were recently referred to as "Murder Hornets" in a ...
The U.S. Navy is now officially using “Murder Hornet” to refer to F/A-18E/F fighters armed with five AIM-120 Advanced Medium ...
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 ...
Recovery of a Navy F/A-18 Super Hornet recently downed over the Red Sea likely hinges on what’s left of the wreckage and how ...
The mistaken downing of an F/A-18 Super Hornet in December bears similarities with the tragic downing of an Iran passenger ...
Unconfirmed accounts from two pilots, including the one shot down, described how the F/A-18F was engaged while recovering on ...
The Houthis’ operations are causing substantial damage to US forces, both directly and indirectly. In the last year alone, ...
Right-wing commentators have tied the incident to broader concerns about alleged incompetence in the U.S. military.
Last week, over the Red Sea, the Navy lost an F-18F Super Hornet to friendly fire. The aircraft was shot down by a surface-to ...
For more than half of 2024, the view for the sailors aboard USS Dwight D. Eisenhower (CVN-69) or one of the destroyers ...
A friendly fire incident in the Red Sea this past weekend that saw a U.S. Navy Ticonderoga class cruiser down an F/A-18F ...