The Air Force passed on the YF-17 prototype, preferring the more agile F-16. But Navy planners liked it—ultimately ...

USS Gerald R. Ford carrier strike group conducted its final training exercise recently in the Atlantic Ocean, preparing for a ...

The F-18 is a multirole, twin engine, supersonic carrier capable fighter and attack aircraft. Introduced initially as the Hornet, the F-18 serves in the United States Navy, Marine Corps ...

The Navy's planned sixth-generation F/A-XX fighter will be the successor to its F/A-18 Super Hornet, shown here on the flight deck of the aircraft carrier Theodore Roosevelt in the Middle East on ...

Regarding Iran, however, two carriers give the U.S. military significantly improved flexibility. F-18s operating off Carl Vinson and Truman in the Gulf of Oman could range most nuclear targets ...

In that occasion, the carrier embarked 18 F-35s, of which ten were of the USMC’s Marine Fighter Attack Squadron (VMFA) 211. The Exercise Strike Warrior in Sep. 2024 was the first deployment of ...