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The Navy’s F/A-18 Super Hornet Fighter Summed Up in 1 Word
Key Points and Summary – Boeing just marked 30 years since the F/A-18E/F Super Hornet’s first flight on November 29, 1995, in St. Louis, where it began as a McDonnell Douglas program. Born in an era of post–Cold War cuts and after the A-12’s cancellation, the “Hornet 2000” concept offered the Navy an affordable, enlarged evolution of the legacy Hornet that could fill both fighter and attack roles. Marine Cpl. Rodger Lagrange cleans the canopy of…
Thirty years after making its first flight, on 29 November 1995, the Boeing F/A-18 Super Hornet remains the undisputed pillar of the United States Navy's embarkation aviation. Designed to operate from the nuclear aircraft carrier Nimitz and Gerald R. Ford, this multifunction fighter has proved to be [...] The entry The F/A-18 Super Hornet, the ship's fighter that equips the U.S. Navy's nuclear aircraft carriers, appears first in the Military Zon…
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