Before the F/A-18 Super Hornet, Grumman envisioned a future Tomcat: the ST-21 and later the fictionalized ST-22—an aircraft capable of Mach 1.3 supercruise, AESA radar integration, and even drone ...

The F/A designation stands for fighter and attack aircraft. The F/A-18E and 18F models — E is single-seat, F is two-seat — ...

Truman witnessed a $60-70 million fighter jet vanish into the Red Sea after they “lost control” of the F/A-18E Super Hornet ...

Instead, the Navy lacks the capabilities the F-14 Tomcat once provided at the same time that direct threats to the aircraft carrier are at an all-time high (even higher than the Soviet Navy’s ...

The Tomcat was the first aircraft to use a microprocessor-driven flight system, as well as the first microprocessor unit (MPU) ever demonstrated, beating the Intel 4004 by a year. In 1971 ...

As the F-14 tomcat rounded the fantail on the aircraft carrier’s port side, Dale Snodgrass whipped it into an 85-degree banked turn. With its right wingtip below the flight deck, the jet sliced ...

“The aircraft itself was very complex, and we built it without models or simulations,” recalls Chris Clark, who worked on the Tomcat as chief test engineer for Air Test and Evaluation Squadron ...