{"id":162341,"date":"2024-12-29T11:00:16","date_gmt":"2024-12-29T01:00:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/us-navy-fighter-squadrons\/"},"modified":"2024-12-29T11:00:16","modified_gmt":"2024-12-29T01:00:16","slug":"5-fast-facts-on-the-us-navys-fighter-squadrons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=162341","title":{"rendered":"5 Fast Facts On The US Navy&#8217;s Fighter Squadrons"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>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> is arguably         <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink-article\" data-id=\"2026588\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/us-navy-worlds-2nd-most-powerful-air-force\/\" >the second-most potent air force in the world after the US Air Force<\/a><\/span> (at least if the Marine Corps aviation is included). The US Navy operates five types of combat aircraft &#8211; the F\/A-18 Super Hornet (the Navy has retired its Hornets), the F-35C, the EA-18G Growler (EW fighter based on F\/A-18), the MH-60R &#8220;Romeo&#8221; Seahawk helicopter, and the MH-60S &#8220;Sierra&#8221; Seahawk helicopter (the CH-53E Super Stallion can also carry out counter-mine missions). The Navy also operates other aircraft, like the E-2 Hawkeye, while the Marines also operate F-35Bs, F\/A-18 Hornets, and         <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink-article\" data-id=\"2028787\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/when-us-marines-retire-last-av-8-jump-harrier\/\" >AV-8B Harrier IIs (being retired over the next few years)<\/a><\/span>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>US Navy fighter jet squadrons are equipped with F\/A-18 Super Hornets, F-35Cs, and EA-18Gs plus F-5s and F-16s for training.<\/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":[396,628,567,423,708],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-162341","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aircraft","category-fighter-jets","category-guides","category-united-states","category-us-navy"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162341","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=162341"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162341\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":162342,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162341\/revisions\/162342"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=162341"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=162341"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=162341"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}