Great POV of Fighter Jet Landing on Aircraft Carrier - F/A-18F Super Hornet
Source: Wingnut172n - https://www.youtube.com/user/Wingnut172N Music: Flying Dream by Dhruva Aliman - Amazon - https://amzn.to/2B9tGa7 - https://dhruvaaliman.bandcamp.com/album/road-of-fortunes http://www.dhruvaaliman.com/ Spotify - https://open.spotify.com/artist/5XiFCr9iBKE6Cupltgnlet ...Shows what an F/A-18 Super Hornet can do in the right hands. The naming scheme can be a little confusing, but it’s pretty easy. The F/A-18 is named after its Fighter/Attack role. The 18 is its design number. The A/B and C/D are one/two-seat variations of the Hornet. The E/F variants have been significantly upgraded, enough to earn them the designation ‘Super Hornet.’
And the F/A-18 isn’t named after that ugly bug for nothing.
Real hornets are tough as nails. They’re huge, noisy, and perpetually angry. Would you ever mess with a hornet?
The United States Navy loves their toughness as well, documenting F/A-18Fs taking ‘direct hits from surface-to-air missiles, recovering successfully, being repaired quickly, and flying again the next day’ during Operation Desert Storm.
But hornets are known for something more than being impervious to a flyswatter: They’re built to sting.
And they’re not the only ones.
Describing the plane as ‘the world’s most advanced high-performance strike fighter,’ it says the Hornet ‘can undertake virtually any combat mission. It provides adverse weather day and night precision weapons delivery.’
Four F/A-18Cs (remember, earlier variants of our beloved Super Hornet) were on a mission to do what hornets do: Punch through enemy air defenses and turn ground assets into scrambled eggs.
This wasn’t a training run either- it was the first day of the Gulf War. They were headed straight through Iraqi airspace to bomb an airfield.
Before reaching their target, a warning call came in. Two Iraqi MiG-21s were prowling around. The squadron cut a direct intercept route and two downed Iraqis later showed the world that Hornets eat MiGs for breakfast.
So how long was it from first warning call to two burning heaps of scrap metal in the sand dunes?
Forty seconds.
Whatever replaces the Super Hornet has some big shoes to fill.
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