Scale Aviation Modeller International – April 2019

SCALE AVIATION MODELLER INTERNATIONAL • APRIL 2019

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uilt on the success of the F/A-18C and

D ‘Legacy Hornets’, the F/A-18E singe-

seat and the F/A-18F two-seat Super

Hornet, and the unique EA-18G Growler give

the US Navy an unparalleled seaborne strike

and electronic warfare capability. The newer

Super Hornet is about twenty-ive percent

larger than its predecessor, but contains forty-

two percent fewer structural parts, and can

ly greater ranges with heavier payloads, has

more powerful engines and provides greater

survivability, and the brand new electronic

warfare variant, the EA-18G adds tactical

jamming to the aircrafts already impressive

abilities. Entering service in 1999, the Super

Hornet replaced the mighty F-14 Tomcat in the

leet defence role and also works in conjunction

with the ‘Legacy’ Hornets in the strike role.

The forward fuselage remains unchanged

from the earlier aircraft, but the remainder

of the Super Hornet shares little with the

F/A-18C and D models. In July 2002, the

F/A-18E/F began its maiden operational

deployment on board USS Abraham Lincoln,

and in November 2002, the aircraft made

its combat entry, striking air defence sites

in Southern Iraq with Joint Direct Attack

Munitions (JDAMs). The aircraft was

also deployed as part of Operation ‘Iraqi

Freedom’ in March 2003, and has since

been used in action over Afghanistan, Libya

and Syria and continues in operational

deployments around the globe. This new

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the Super Hornet story to life.

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