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Since November 2021, three fighter jets — two of them advanced stealth aircraft — have gone overboard due to accidents aboard aircraft carriers.

The F/A-18E Super Hornet was ‘successfully recovered’ from a depth of around 2,900 metres, months after a separate operation to retrieve a US F-35C that crashed on deck and slid into the South China Sea.

Boeing to Implement Anti-Surface Warfare Capability for Australian, U.S. Navys F/A-18, EA-18G aircraft Our Bureau 34 F/A-18E Super Hornet The U.S. Navy awarded Boeing a contract for DTP-N kits to implement anti-surface warfare capability in the F/A-18E/F and EA-18G aircraft for the Navy and government of Australia. The deal valued $33 million covers 53 distributed targeting processor-networked (DTP-N) B-kits; 44 DTP-N A1-kits; and 19 DTP-N A2 kits in support of DTP-N full-rate production. D...

Boeing to Support Kuwaiti Super Hornets Our Bureau 2016 Super Hornets The U.S. Department of Defense has announced a $21 million contract to Boeing to support Kuwait’s fleet of Super Hornet jets. This modification adds new scope for integrated logistics support for 22 F/A-18E and six F/A-18F Super Hornets in support of the government of Kuwait, a DoD release today said. Kuwait ordered 28 Super Hornets in 2018 (22 single-seat F/A-18E and 6 two-seats F/A-18F) for $1.5 billion. Boeing has said...