{"id":166569,"date":"2025-01-13T18:30:48","date_gmt":"2025-01-13T08:30:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/super-hornet-preferred-air-to-air-missile-loadout\/"},"modified":"2025-01-13T18:30:48","modified_gmt":"2025-01-13T08:30:48","slug":"how-the-super-hornets-new-preferred-air-to-air-missile-loadout-works","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=166569","title":{"rendered":"How The Super Hornet&#8217;s New Preferred Air-To-Air Missile Loadout Works"},"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> now has a preferred air-to-air missile loadout for its             <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\" data-id=\"60363\"style=\";  ;\" class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/tag\/boeing\/\"  ><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/static0.simpleflyingimages.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/boeing-icon.png\" loading=\"lazy\" \/>Boeing<\/a><\/span> F\/A-18E\/F Super Hornets called a \u201cMurder Hornet\u201d loadout. This is according to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.navy.mil\/Portals\/1\/CNO\/NAVPLAN2024\/Files\/Delivering-Warfighting-Advantage.pdf\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" >a list of 2024 US Navy accomplishments<\/a> released by the US Navy&#8217;s Chief of Naval Operations. The loadout is of four AIM-9X Sidewinder heat-seeking and five AIM-120 AMRAAM active radar missiles \u2013 both made by Raytheon, a             <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\" data-id=\"712755\"style=\";  ;\" class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\"><span><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/static0.simpleflyingimages.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/sharedimages\/2024\/07\/rtx_icon.png\" loading=\"lazy\" \/>RTX Corporation<\/span><\/span> company \u2013 that has come about to address the need for Super Hornets to engage slow-moving, low radar return drones as much as full-size combat aircraft.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Looking at the air-to-air capability of the Super Hornet with new data.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":1,"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":[396,595,398,14853,12854,8822,423,708],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-166569","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-aircraft","category-aviation-news","category-boeing","category-rtx-corporation","category-top-gun","category-top-gun-maverick","category-united-states","category-us-navy"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166569","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=166569"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166569\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":166570,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166569\/revisions\/166570"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=166569"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=166569"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=166569"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}