{"id":421514,"date":"2026-05-06T12:00:30","date_gmt":"2026-05-06T02:00:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/why-us-navy-still-rely-fa-18-super-hornet\/"},"modified":"2026-05-06T12:00:30","modified_gmt":"2026-05-06T02:00:30","slug":"why-does-the-us-navy-still-rely-on-the-f-a-18-super-hornet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=421514","title":{"rendered":"Why Does The US Navy Still Rely On The F\/A-18 Super Hornet?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>While 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> heavily relies on the Boeing F\/A-18 Super Hornet, it no longer relies on the F\/A-18 Legacy Hornet; those have been retired. Meanwhile, the US Marine Corps is in the process of phasing its Legacy Hornets out and <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink-article\" data-id=\"2050831\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/lockheed-martin-deliver-record-f-35-last-year-how\/\" >replacing them all with F-35B\/Cs<\/a><\/span>. The Marines will soon abandon the F\/A-18 family for good, while the Navy will continue to rely on it into the 2040s.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The F\/A-18 has been able to carry out most of the Navy&#8217;s requirements while being affordable, although it is increasingly struggling.<\/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":[396,628,708],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-421514","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aircraft","category-fighter-jets","category-us-navy"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/421514","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=421514"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/421514\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":421515,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/421514\/revisions\/421515"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=421514"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=421514"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=421514"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}