F/A 18 Hornet around the world

Tu m'étonne surtout la version super-hornet...

Merci seif pour les scans et le topic.
le F-18 est probablement l'avion de chasse qui a subit le plus de métamorphose de puis le YF-17 cobra jusqu'au F/A-18 E/F super hornet block II en passant par les version F-18 A/B C/D et E/F block I.

Block III

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Boeing Plans Sixth Generation Fighter With Block 3 Super Hornet

Jan 30, 2008
David A. Fulghum/Aerospace Daily & Defense Report


Boeing is touting an even newer version of its F/A-18E/F Super Hornet that, paired with an advanced sixth-generation fighter in the works at the company, would give customers what Boeing deems a better package of capabilities than Lockheed Martin's combination of the F-22 Raptor and F-35 Joint Strike Fighter.

The idea is that customers could buy 4.5 generation Super Hornets (perhaps 4.75 generation with the planned extra forward stealth and extra range of Block 3 aircraft) and then switch to a new, sixth generation faster than if they bought the fifth generation Joint Strike Fighter. To be available circa 2024, the sixth generation aircraft would feature a combat radius of more than 1,000 miles and stealth against a much wider spectrum of radars.

"The [Navy] C-version of the F-35 doesn't buy you a lot that the Super Hornet doesn't provide," says Bob Gower, Boeing's vice president for F/A-18 and EA-18G programs. "Our strategy is to create a compelling reason for the services to go to the next [sixth] generation platform. How do you bridge F/A-18E/F to get us there? We want to convince customers to stay with [Super Hornet] a few years longer -- by adding advanced capabilities and lowering price -- so that they can get to the sixth generation faster. If you go to JSF first, it's going to be a long time."

Another part of Boeing's argument is that the "Navy is comfortable with the Super Hornet against the highest [enemy] threat through 2024, with the [improved] capabilities we have in the flight plan," Gower says. "The ability to counter the threat gets you to about the point that [Boeing's] sixth generation is available."

It's part of Boeing's counterattack on Lockheed Martin's claim that the decreasing price of the F-22, which is now at $140 million each, will make it so attractive that Australia may reconsider its buy -- already being paid for -- of 24 two-seat F/A-18F Super Hornets. Until Australia's recent change in government, a number of U.S. officials said the government was considering a second lot of 24 Super Hornets and a six-plane squadron of EA-18G Growlers.

Boeing makes the argument that a sliding in-service date for the JSF is worrying both the Australians and the U.S. military.

"The U.S. Air Force and Navy are now talking a lot more about where they need to go with sixth generation to get beyond JSF," Gower says. "It could be unmanned, but I think you will see a combination of missions -- some manned, some unmanned."

For Boeing, the real discriminators are going to be extended range (1,000-1,500 miles), a small radar signature against low-frequency radars, expanded awareness through connections with the network, and the ability to carry a number of bombs internally.

http://www.aviationweek.com/aw/generic/story.jsp?id=news/6THG013008.xml&headline=Boeing%20Plans%20Sixth%20Generation%20Fighter%20With%20Block%203%20Super%20Hornet&channel=defense

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Boeing hedges against JSF delays with stealthier Super Hornet

13 May 2005

Boeing hedges against JSF delays with stealthier Super Hornet

A Boeing Phantom Works team is working on the design of a stealthier version of the F/A-18E/F Super Hornet, known internally as the Block 3. The design is being studied as a hedge against further delays with the Lockheed Martin F-35C Joint Strike Fighter (JSF), which has already slipped by at least a year.

Block 3 studies are being led by the Phantom Works' low-observable (LO) team, headed by Alan Wiechmann. (Super Hornets are now being delivered in the Block 2 configuration, with a revised nose to accommodate the Raytheon APG-79 radar.) The basic Super Hornet already incorporates some LO technology, including edge alignments, swept inlets and treated blocker vanes in front of the engines, and the Phantom Works has been working since the early 1990s on ways to reduce the radar cross-section (RCS) of conventional aircraft and external stores. Boeing engineers acknowledge that the Block 3 would not be as stealthy as the JSF, and state that there are no plans to change the external shape of the aircraft, but assert that even today's aircraft has more LO technology in it than is generally recognised.

Meanwhile, US Navy (USN) Super Hornet programme manager Captain Don Gaddis disclosed at the Avalon air show that the USN has changed it s future force mix. Previously, it planned to field 20 squadrons of F/A-18E/Fs, a fleet of EA-18G jamming aircraft and 20 squadrons of JSFs. Now, however, the USN plans to operate 22 F/A-18E/F squadrons and 18 F-35C squadrons. The change will not make any immediate difference to aircraft purchases, Capt Gaddis said. The reduction in JSF numbers will not take effect until the end of the programme, while the extra Super Hornet squadrons will be filled by higher utilisation of the basic aircraft and by rationalising test and training assets.

http://www.janes.com/aerospace/military/news/idr/idr050513_1_n.shtml

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Four F/A-18Fs of VFA-41 "Black Aces" fly over the Pacific in a stack formation in 2003. Note AN/ASQ-228 ATFLIR pods on the first and third aircraft, and a buddy store tank on the fourth aircraft.

la même photo en haute résolution ici

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A VFA-122 F/A-18F pulling a high-g maneuver at the NAS Oceana "In Pursuit of Liberty" air show, 2004.

Format HR ici

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A VFA-11 F/A-18F Super Hornet performing evasive maneuvers during an air power demonstration.

Format HR ici

Un F/A-18 de l'USMC


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F/A-18E Super Hornet




F/A-18G Growler

Merci elles sont belles ces foto

Northrop a écrit:

Merci elles sont belles ces foto

à votre service

F18 Growler: check out the cockpits in big and detail dimension.Click below

http://www.primeportal.net/hangar/michael_block/fa-18g_growler_cockpit_mockup/

caractéristiques officielles du Super Hornet :

http://www.boeing.com/defense-space/military/fa18ef/docs/EF_overview.pdf

http://www.boeing.com/defense-space/military/fa18ef/index.htm

Selon vous quelles sont les chances de voir le fameux block 3 du Super Hornet ? quelles sont les conditions/scénarios de voir ce concept aboutir est voir le jour?

ca depend du JSF,si ca continue ca sera serré et Boeing pourrait laisser tomber
deja avec le F-15SE,je sais pas s´ils peuvent se permettre le luxe de faire sortire un autre programm(soit disant 6eme generation est un peu exageré avec ce designe)

Yakuza a écrit:

ca depend du JSF,si ca continue ca sera serré et Boeing pourrait laisser tomber
deja avec le F-15SE,je sais pas s´ils peuvent se permettre le luxe de faire sortire un autre programm

oui c'est vrai qu'avec le F-15SE, le F-18 blk3 pour toutes ses chances.

Yakuza a écrit:

(soit disant 6eme generation est un peu exageré avec ce designe)

boieng ne prétend pas pouvoir faire du super hornet un 6 generation, ils disent seulement qu'ils voudraient en faire un 4,75 ''tellement performant'' qu'on pourrait zapper la 5 génération en attendant la 6 génération une manoeuvre marketing pour zapper le JSF.

a leur place je markete le E/F et le Growler et c ést tout.
le SE me parrait plus seduisan/promettant,encore le projet B3 etait pensé avec une tete vide de crise et restrictions budgetaires..

Du même avis que Yak. 2 programmes en même temps sa risque d'être chaud !
Pour moi Boieng mise sur le "Silent Eagle " et on sait tous contre qui

Raptor a écrit:

boieng ne prétend pas pouvoir faire du super hornet un 6 generation, ils disent seulement qu'ils voudraient en faire un 4,75 ''tellement performant'' qu'on pourrait zapper la 5 génération en attendant la 6 génération une manoeuvre marketing pour zapper le JSF.

la confiramtion de ce que j'avais dit, il ne s'agit pas de faire un 6 generation à partir du super hornet:

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The idea is that customers could buy 4.5 generation Super Hornets (perhaps 4.75 generation with the planned extra forward stealth and extra range of Block 3 aircraft) and then switch to a new, sixth generation faster than if they bought the fifth generation Joint Strike Fighter. To be available circa 2024, the sixth generation aircraft would feature a combat radius of more than 1,000 miles and stealth against a much wider spectrum of radars.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1962432/posts

bonne nouvelle pour les fans du Super Hornet, peut être que grâce à cette augmentation de la poussée l'avion retrouvera la manoeuvrabilité du Hornet dans ses versions A/B/C/D.

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The photo was taken at a demonstration flight by the U.S. Navy during the 2009

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US Navy Takes Delivery of 400th F/A-18E/F Super Hornet
Released on Friday, July 24, 2009

Boeing Delivers 400th F/A-18E/F Super Hornet to US Navy

ST. LOUIS, July 24, 2009 -- The Boeing Company [NYSE: BA] today announced that it delivered the 400th F/A-18E/F Super Hornet to the U.S. Navy in June.

The original Super Hornet strike fighter achieved initial operational capability with the Navy in September 2001. The advanced Super Hornet Block II, equipped with the Raytheon-built APG-79 Active Electronically Scanned Array radar, debuted in 2005 and is in production today.

"The Super Hornet provides 21st-century combat capability to U.S. servicemembers around the world every day," said Bob Gower, vice president of F/A-18 and EA-18 Programs for Global Strike Systems, Boeing Integrated Defense Systems.

"This delivery is a result of the dedication and pride of the Boeing employees who build this aircraft, as well as the outstanding program partnership with the Navy, the Hornet Industry Team and more than 1,900 suppliers," Gower added. "It's also an important milestone for U.S. taxpayers, because every Super Hornet, from one to 400, has been delivered on time and on budget."

The Block II F/A-18E/F Super Hornet is a multirole aircraft, able to perform virtually every mission in the tactical spectrum, including air superiority, day/night strike with precision-guided weapons, fighter escort, close air support, suppression of enemy air defenses, maritime strike, reconnaissance, forward air control and tanker missions.

The Hornet Industry Team includes Boeing, Northrop Grumman, GE Aircraft Engines and Raytheon. Boeing will deliver the first F/A-18F for Australia -- the first international Super Hornet customer -- next week. Boeing is in discussions with several other customers about their interest in procuring the Super Hornet.

"The Super Hornet delivers the cost and schedule certainty that governments rely on and taxpayers expect, while providing warfighters with the advanced capability they need, today," Gower said.

U.S. Navy Capt. Mark Darrah, F/A-18 and EA-18G program manager, PMA-265, said the 400th Super Hornet delivery is critical to ensuring on-schedule and on-budget capability for the Navy.

"Every Super Hornet delivered to the Navy has been delivered on or ahead of schedule," Darrah said. "The Navy and our nation depend on the advanced capability the Super Hornet delivers each day around the globe. The F/A-18E/F's advanced capability, combined with its remarkable program performance, make the Super Hornet a true model for defense acquisition."

http://www.deagel.com/news/US-Navy-Takes-Delivery-of-400th-FA-18EF-Super-Hornet_n000006377.aspx

le F18 est un redoutable chasseur taillé pour l aeronavale

mais ce que je comprend pas , c est les pays qui dotent leur force aerienne du F18 ! je ne sais pas ce qui les decide?

les qualité??? (il ya le f15 avec une meilleur autonomie et un meilleur emport etc...)

le prix ? (il est quasiment aiussi cher que le F15)

le fait qu il soit plus leger que le F15 ? (il ya le F16 qui est plus leger et beaucoup...beaucoup moin cher)

vraiment je vois pas (surtout quand il ya le F15 proposer a coté )

encore une fois c est un avion formidable pour la navy , mais je ne comprend pas pourquoi des nation l emploi dan leur air force .