Key Points and Summary - The F/A-18E/F Super Hornet—born in the 1990s to replace aging F-14s and legacy Hornets—heads for its final production run as Boeing fulfills a last Navy order of 17 jets.

An American-origin F/A-18 fighter jet, and not surface-to-air missiles (SAMs) as initially believed, had taken out the three ...

A Kuwaiti F/A-18 Hornet aircraft is suspected to have accidentally shot down three US F-15s amid ongoing tensions with Iran.

WSJ reports a Kuwaiti F/A-18 may have mistakenly shot down three US Air Force F-15E Strike Eagles during combat operations ...

The U.S. Navy is adding a new smart weapon to its arsenal, with its fleet of F/A-18-E/F Super Hornets slated to receive an impressive boost in combat prowess.

Three US F-15E Strike Eagle fighter jets went down over Kuwait on Sunday in what American officials have described as an “apparent friendly-fire incid.

Two U.S. Navy aircraft from the USS Nimitz — a Sea Hawk helicopter and an F/A-18 Super Hornet fighter jet — crashed during separate "routine operations" over the South China Sea on Sunday, with all ...

The Navy recently declared the RTX GBU-53/B Small Diameter Bomb (SDB) II has reached Initial Operational Capability (IOC) on ...

The U.S. Navy has approved Raytheon's StormBreaker smart weapon for operational use on the F/A-18-E/F Super Hornet strike fighter.

The Navy said that two aircraft deployed from the same carrier crashed separately on Sunday. A Sea Hawk crashed at 2:15 p.m., while a Super Hornet went down half an hour later. The incidents coincide ...

The F/A-18 Hornet is an all-weather supersonic, twin-engine, carrier-capable, multirole combat aircraft. It is designed as both a fighter and ground attack craft, which is why it has the F/A ...