Category: Navy
Syrian Su-22 shot down by F/A-18E
Boeing’s Super Hornet has scored its first air-to-air kill when a Syrian Su-22 was shot down by a U.S. Navy F/A-18E on Jun. 18.
By U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class Nathan Laird [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons
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Every USN F/A-18, EA-18G aircrew getting Garmin Fenix 3
One of the measures taken by the U.S. Navy to combat the physiological episodes on the F/A-18s and EA-18Gs is to issue the aircrew a Garmin Fenix 3 watch.
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By Marco Verch [CC BY 2.0], via Wikimedia Commons
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Aegis destroyer USS Fitzgerald involved in collision at sea, 7 sailors unaccounted for
USS Fitzgerald, a Aegis guided-missile destroyer, was involved in a collision with a Philippine merchant ship southwest of Yokosuka, Japan, on Jun. 17.
No smoking gun in USN fast jet physiological episodes
A U.S. Navy investigation into persistent oxygen and pressurization issues on the Boeing F/A-18 and T-45 has failed to narrow a single cause behind the problem. Therefore, the service will tackle the problem from multiple angles.
By English: Petty Officer 2nd Class Rufus Hucks, U.S. Navy (www.defense.gov) [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons