{"id":157341,"date":"2024-12-13T04:00:15","date_gmt":"2024-12-12T18:00:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/8-countries-operate-f-a-18-hornet-super-hornet\/"},"modified":"2024-12-13T04:00:15","modified_gmt":"2024-12-12T18:00:15","slug":"the-8-countries-that-operate-the-f-a-18-hornet-super-hornet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=157341","title":{"rendered":"The 8 Countries That Operate The F\/A-18 Hornet &amp; Super Hornet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The F\/A-18 Hornet was developed for the             <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\" data-id=\"58652\"style=\";  ;\" class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\"><span>US Navy<\/span><\/span> and has since proved moderately successful on the export market with US allies and partners. Outside the US, it is mostly used as a land-based fighter jet. The F\/A-18 Hornet was later upgraded to         <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink-article\" data-id=\"2029991\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/history-us-fa-18ef-super-hornet-program\/\" >the much more capable and modernized F\/A-18 Super Hornet<\/a><\/span>. Fewer countries ordered the Super Hornet &#8211; partly because they (e.g., the US Marines, Australia, Finland, Canada) opted to upgrade to             <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\" data-id=\"58657\"style=\";  ;\" class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/tag\/f-35\/\"  >F-35<\/a><\/span> Lightning II fifth-generation fighter jets. The era of the Super Hornet is soon to turn a new chapter as the         <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink-article\" data-id=\"2026025\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/us-navy-f-a-18-super-hornet-last-orders\/\" >Navy has placed its final orders and begins to transition to the F-35C fighter<\/a><\/span>. These are the eight countries that operate the Hornet and Super Hornet.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Eight countries operate the Navy&#8217;s Hornet family of fighter jets with some of these transitioning to the F-35 fighter jet.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[396,628,412,423,708],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-157341","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aircraft","category-fighter-jets","category-military","category-united-states","category-us-navy"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157341","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=157341"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157341\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":157342,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157341\/revisions\/157342"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=157341"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=157341"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=157341"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}