Four Hornets touched down in Iceland on Jan. 24, 2025 for a three week detachment. It is the first time Finland has contributed to the Icelandic Air Policing mission since becoming a NATO member.

A fighter jet can pull many Gs, which is why back in the mid-80s, there was such a sudden concern shortly after the Navy first deployed the Hornet. It was discovered during testing that there was a ...

The Fleet Readiness Center Southwest completed its first fully in-house Block III Super Hornet upgrade, combining the work ...

ST. LOUIS COUNTY, Mo. – November will mark the 30th anniversary of the first flight of the locally-built F/A-18 Super Hornet. The National Museum of Transportation will celebrate the fighter jet’s ...

A Wall Street Journal’s report, quoting people familiar with the friendly fire incident, says a Kuwaiti F/A-18 might be responsible for the loss of three U.S. F-15Es. As we previously reported, three ...

NAS OCEANA, Va. — The largest F/A-18 squadron on the East Coast is right here in our backyard: the Rhino Demo Team of VFA-106 at Naval Air Station Oceana in Virginia Beach. One squadron member is Lt.

Castelion, a small California defense startup, has won a $105 million U.S. Navy contract to ready its Blackbeard hypersonic ...

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The F/A-18 was an advanced machine for the 1980s; the jet is still quite capable today. The enduring and admirable F/A-18 Hornet has been a staple of U.S. naval aviation since the 1980s. But the ...

CORRECTION: We incorrectly attributed a quote by Tom Boelling to a different member of the IAM union. We regret the error. ST. LOUIS – Boeing is making major ...

To contextualize the achievement, 12 million flight hours translates into almost 1,370 years, or 500,000 days, of non-stop flying. The F/A-18 Hornet—the main fighter jet platform operated by both the ...