The IRST Block II enhances ‘situational awareness by supplementing air-to-air detection and track capabilities, and ...

The Navy’s Super Hornet and Growler are evolving under new directives - see what the 2024 Annual Report reveals about their ...

Manufacturers McDonnell Douglas and Northrop Grumman constructed the F/A-18 platform to feature ... emerging technologies and weapons into the Super Hornet to make it more effective in a fifth ...

The air-defense loadout, the name for which was made official in Navy documentation, consists of four AIM-9X and five AIM-120 air-to-air missiles.

The Navy said that the "Murder Hornet" configuration on its F/A-18 fighter jet is comprised of nine air-to-air missiles.

The U.S. Navy’s podded Infrared Search And Track System, or IRST, planned for its F/A-18E/F Super Hornet fighters, has ...

The U.S. Navy announced initial operational capability for the Infrared Search and Track (IRST) Block II system for the F/A-18 E/F Super Hornet ...

F/A-18 Super Hornet Block III Is One Tough Fighter Plane for the U.S. Navy – Over the summer, manufacturer Boeing revealed that the first F/A-18 Block II Super Hornets had ...

The U.S. Air Force passed over the YF-17 prototype to select the F-16 fighter jet. But the U.S. Navy made it the F/A-18 Hornet.

Learn how the US Navy is upgrading its Super Hornet fleet's sensor to improve aircrew tracking and targeting capabilities.

The Navy declared initial operational capability for the F/A-18 E/F Infrared Search and Track Block II system in November 2024, according to a Navy spokesperson -- a milestone that follows reliability ...