12,000,000 Hours in the Sky: The US Navy F/A-18 Super Hornet Is No Stealth Fighter Like the F-22 or F-35 But Was the Go To Fighter in the Iran War

Since entering service in 1999, the F/A-18E/F Super Hornet has accumulated twelve million flight hours. It made its combat debut in 2002 over Iraq, carried the Navy through two decades of strike operations across the Middle East, and remains indispensable to the carrier air wing today. Twelve million hours is the argument for keeping it.