Also, adding more sensors would be much easier on a Super Hornet than an F-35. Without needing to preserve stealth, such sensors can simply be pod-mounted on one of the Super Hornet's wing ...

It’s worth qualifying that the F-35 could arguably do most of the things the Super Hornet can, in addition to being much harder to detect and kill. It can travel nearly as far on internal fuel ...

The Super Hornet and F-35 “are the Navy's two frontline fighters, and will be for decades to come," said Dan Gillian, manager of F/A-18 and EA-18 programs at Boeing.

The F-35-vs.-Advanced Super Hornet debate has been around since at least 2013, when Boeing conducted the first tests of their jet.

The idea that an F/A-18 Super Hornet could be "comparable" to the F-35 met swift and intense condemnation, and Lockheed Martin quickly lost billions in value on its stock.

-Despite the arrival of the F-35, the U.S. Navy will continue to operate the Super Hornet until at least the 2030s. F/A-18 Super Hornet: The U.S. Navy’s Reliable Powerhouse ...

An F/A-18F Super Hornet deployed as part of Operation Inherent Resolve taxis across the flight deck the aircraft carrier USS Dwight D. Eisenhower. U.S. Navy, Petty Officer 3rd Class Nathan T. Beard ...

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But the truth of the matter is the F/A-18's lineage won't be replaced outright by the F-35 at all. Rather, the Super Hornet is due to be replaced starting in the 2030s by the U.S. Navy's F/A-XX ...

The Super Hornet was designed as a bigger, beefier Hornet. Super Hornets in service today will be replaced by the F-35 and the Navy’s upcoming sixth-generation fighter.

The F/A-18 Hornet has long been one of the U.S. Navy's most powerful all-weather, carrier-capable, multirole combat aircraft. The F/A-18 entered active service in 1983 for the U.S. Marine Corps ...

In June, the U.S. Navy released a budget allocating $264.9 million towards upgrading its roughly six hundred FA-18E and F Super Hornet and EA-18G Growler fighters to the new Block III standard ...