The enduring and admirable F/A-18 Hornet has been a staple of U.S. naval aviation since the 1980s. But the prototype from which the F/A-18 was developed, the YF-17, failed to impress U.S. Air ...
The air-defense loadout, the name for which was made official in Navy documentation, consists of four AIM-9X and five AIM-120 air-to-air missiles.