Description
F / A-18E / F "Super Hornet" (eng. F / A-18E / F Super Hornet) - American carrier-based fighter-bomber and attack aircraft. It is a deep revision of the F/A-18 fighter project.
The first flight was made on November 29, 1995. For the construction of the Super Hornet aircraft, a new assembly line was specially organized by McDonnell Douglas Corporation at the aircraft factory in St. Louis.
A potential buyer of the Super Hornets is Australia, which has a significant fleet of early Hornet fighters. On May 3, 2007, a contract was signed for the supply of 24 F / A-18F Super Hornet units to Australia for a total of $ 2.9 billion. Boeing Corporation, which absorbed McDonnell Douglas Corporation in 1997, is persistently promoting its products to the Central European market - to Poland , Hungary and the Czech Republic.
