The cause of the friendly fire shoot-down of a Naval Air Station Oceana-based jet over the Red Sea remains a mystery. After ...

The U.S. Navy is now officially using “Murder Hornet” to refer to F/A-18E/F fighters armed with five AIM-120 Advanced Medium ...

On Dec. 22, after taking off from the Norfolk-based USS Harry S. Truman, a F/A-18 F Super Hornet was hit by weapons fired ...

Recovery of a Navy F/A-18 Super Hornet recently downed over the Red Sea likely hinges on what’s left of the wreckage and how ...

The mistaken downing of an F/A-18 Super Hornet in December bears similarities with the tragic downing of an Iran passenger ...

Unconfirmed accounts from two pilots, including the one shot down, described how the F/A-18F was engaged while recovering on ...

An F/A-18 Super Hornet – flying a few miles behind the Hornet that was shot down in a "friendly fire" incident over the Red ...

A US Navy cruiser mistakenly shot down a friendly Super Hornet fighter jet over the Red Sea on Sunday amid the US military's ...

Right-wing commentators have tied the incident to broader concerns about alleged incompetence in the U.S. military.

For more than half of 2024, the view for the sailors aboard USS Dwight D. Eisenhower (CVN-69) or one of the destroyers ...

A U.S. Navy F/A-18 Super Hornet was shot down in a friendly fire incident, but a previously unreported second jet narrowly avoided a similar fate.

An F/A-18 Super Hornet – flying a few miles behind the Hornet that was shot down – was forced to take evasive maneuvers after a second surface-to-air missile was fired from the cruiser USS ...