US Navy FA-18 Super Hornet

oh yeah right like the candians ave more of a navy than the US. Canadian polititians are pussies if you think about it theyd rather sit back and let the rest of the world fight off the terrorists and they can just watch all the other countries send men to die for freedom untill they dont have anyone to defend thier asses anymore.

and you would know how? probly off of wikipedia or some other halfass internet site that is a load of bullcrap. There Lockheedmartin period.

you are wrong...they are built by boeing

i'm 16. and what the F**k does it mater to you about what i think. The Candain Military does have a miltary and Canada has the strongest navy in the world as far as a couple years ago.

Just being in the military or navy, air force doesn't meen you go to war, you can be a zombie (if you know what that is).

and if you think about it the USA are pussies. brush up on Canadian/American history and it will tell you

One of the main reason this Aircraft is does so well in combat is because it can easily switch from Fighter (F in the name) to light bomber or Attack (A) with the flip of a switch from your JDAM's to your Sparrows.

No they don't! FA-18s are biult by Lockheed/Martin not Boeing

how old are you? i wouldnt aspire to do anything in the canadian military seeing as that they barely have a millitary at all and rely on US to defend them the most.

the only problem with the AH-64 is exectly that its an AH-64 (a Helo) and can be so easily shot down by any modern combat aircraft so its not allways the best choice depending on what your up against

The problem with this baby, as with all aircrafts is: they need extreme amounts of space to operate in combat, whereas an AH-64 does only need 1/1000 of the space to be a deadly weapon.

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That's sick.

In about 5-6 years i will be flying this F/A18D Hornet for the Canadian Air Force

Can't wait.
Then i am going to be a pilot for Air Canada and fly with my dad.

My dad was is a pilot for Air Canada Flying the 777-200LR.

Wow, those manuevers were amazing towards the middle and end, judging from the low speed and the fish tailing, I'm pretty confident that it's probably more agile than a MiG-29 or a standard Su-27 series Flanker. Those were more impressive than any non thrust vectored Russian fighter can do considering how slow the F/A-18 was going and stable it stayed. It would've pulled a Pugachev Cobra during the middle of the video had the pilot not hit the throttle.

Well if there is one thing to appreciate about American fighters, is that they tend to carry alot more munitions and have much higher max take off weights=more weapons into combat. Russian MiG-29s and Flankers are bit more manueverable in many respects, but the F/A-18E/F could probably turn with a MiG-29 easily with those large as hell LERXs and larger wings compared to the old Hornet design. After watching this the F-18 could probably easily do the Pugachev Cobra, if the computer allows it.

The F-18E block 2 is a very good fighter. It's got an AESA radar, which is much more capable than previous generations of radars. It's got the MIDS datalink, new ECM, a reduced RCS - about 1/10 that of a su-35 and 1/100 that of a su-27/30-.

It's got better missiles than its competitors, the AIM-9X launched with the helmet cueing mounted system, and the AIM-120D, the new longer range version of the AMRAAM.

Hi, I'm from Australia. First off I like this vid it shows u a lot more about the super hornet especaily if you are technicaly minded or orientaded - good stuff. I was just wandering (incase any US Navy "Super hornet" pilots/carrier personel view this) - How dose the super hornet stand in cmparison to the latest generation Russian designed superiority fighter?

The RAAF runs "classic" F-18's + some "dusty" old F-111's (2 b retired - all well serviced and upgraded). Will the super hold it??

Boeing builds the Super Hornet. The engines are General Electric. End of discussion.