A long pattern of rushed training and failed equipment contributed to the embarrassing and costly error, a recently published ...

New documents reveal how the USS Gettysburg shot down an F/A-18 and nearly hit a second one above the Red Sea last year.

One year ago, on December 22, 2024, a U.S. Navy F/A-18F Super Hornet fighter jet attempting to land on the aircraft carrier ...

One of the planes was accidentally shot down by the cruiser USS Gettysburg, which also fired on another Super Hornet.

The US Navy lost three aircraft during the operation due to the lapses pointing towards the broader issues of operational ...

The fighter jets were lost due to malfunction, a friendly fire shoot-down, and a defensive evasive maneuver, according to the ...

The U.S. Navy on Dec. 4, 2025, publicly released the results of four major investigations stemming from a string of serious ...

The Navy completed the investigation about the loss of three F/A-18 Super Hornets and the collision with a merchant vessel ...

The U.S. Navy released details from their investigation into multiple incidents involving the USS Harry S. Truman during its ...

The incidents included the loss of three fighter jets and a collision between an aircraft carrier and a merchant vessel.

Leadership failures, training gaps and malfunctioning equipment drove the preventable loss of three F/A-18 Super Hornets and ...

Key Points and Summary: The F/A-18E/F Super Hornet was born from urgency: replace aging Navy jets, fly from tight decks, and do everything reasonably well. -It delivered—bigger lungs, tougher bones, ...