{"id":440136,"date":"2026-05-28T10:00:19","date_gmt":"2026-05-28T00:00:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/little-known-reason-us-navy-choose-fa-18-over-f-35c-missions\/"},"modified":"2026-05-28T10:00:19","modified_gmt":"2026-05-28T00:00:19","slug":"the-little-known-reason-the-us-navy-still-chooses-the-f-a-18-super-hornet-over-the-f-35c-on-certain-missions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=440136","title":{"rendered":"The Little-Known Reason The US Navy Still Chooses The F\/A-18 Super Hornet Over The F-35C On Certain Missions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The aircraft 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> chooses to deploy for a given mission are influenced by factors like having the right tool for the right job and availability. There are times when the Navy prefers to use its Boeing F\/A-18 Super Hornets <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink-article\" data-id=\"2053718\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/how-f-35-taking-place-2nd-most-common-fighter-jet-world\/\" >over its Lockheed Martin F-35C Lightning II fighter jets<\/a><\/span>. There is not one reason for this, with deciding factors often coming down to availability, mission type, coordination with other service branches, or even just using them in tandem with each other.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>More Super Hornets\/Hornets remain in US Navy &amp; Marine service than all other naval fighter jets combined, speaking to their continual versatility.<\/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":[396,748,628,708],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-440136","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aircraft","category-f-35","category-fighter-jets","category-us-navy"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/440136","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=440136"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/440136\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":440137,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/440136\/revisions\/440137"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=440136"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=440136"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=440136"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}