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The Navy’s F/A-18 Hornet Is Still Deadly After Nearly 50 Years
The F/A-18 was an advanced machine for the 1980s; the jet is still quite capable today. The enduring and admirable F/A-18 Hornet has been a staple of U.S. naval aviation since the 1980s. But the ...
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America’s YF-17 Cobra: The Greatest Warplane You’ve Never Heard Of
But the Navy did not use the YF-17 as anything more than an inspiration for the design and development of the F/A-18 Hornet. It was the Hornet, not the Cobra, that rose to replace the aging F-14 ...
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Northrop’s YF-23 Black Widow II Might Be Making a Comeback
But they could start with the proven YF-23 instead. But rumors have been flying across the internet that Japan, and possibly the United Kingdom, are interested in reconstituting America’s ...