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The F/A-18 Hornet: Inside the Navy Plane that Almost Never FlewThe Air Force passed on the YF-17 prototype, preferring the more agile F-16. But Navy planners liked it—ultimately transforming it into the venerable F/A-18.
The National Interest on MSN16d
Yemen’s Houthis Are Learning to Fear the U.S. F/A-18 Super HornetThe Super Hornet remains the Navy’s most advanced frontline carrier-based strike fighter. T he resurgence in violence between ...
On the F/A-18, “we’ve learned how to optimize the wing design so that the aircraft can carry out its functions” without changing geometry.
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