A US Navy Super Hornet knocked out a pair of Iran blockade runners by hitting the smokestacks with precision munitions

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Smoke rises from an Iranian-flagged oil tanker in the Gulf of Oman.
The aftermath of US strikes on an Iranian-flagged tanker.

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The US Navy shot out the rudder of an Iran blockade runner with a Super Hornet's 20 mm cannon

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An F/A-18E Super Hornet, attached to Strike Fighter Squadron (VFA) 151, launches from the flight deck of Nimitz-class aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln (CVN 72) during Operation Epic Fury, March 31, 2026.
An F/A-18 Super Hornet launches from the flight deck of USS Abraham Lincoln.

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The US Navy is testing a jet-powered JDAM that can deliver standoff cruise-missile-like strikes for less

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A Navy F/A-18 carries the new Joint Direct Attack Munition (JDAM) Long Range (LR) variant during a test event in early April off the coast of California
A Navy F/A-18 carrying the long-range JDAM variant earlier this month.

US Navy photo

Photos show the aerial acrobatics before unexpected storms ended a big military airshow

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Airmen used airbags, forklifts, and cranes to invert an aircraft that flipped during a thunderstorm with wind gusts of up to 54 mph.
Airmen used airbags, forklifts, and cranes to invert an aircraft that flipped during a thunderstorm with wind gusts of up to 54 mph.

US Air Force photo by Airman 1st Class Gavin Hameed

Super Hornet fighter jets on the deck of a US Navy aircraft carrier in the Red Sea are sporting Houthi drone kill marks

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An F/A-18E Super Hornet, attached to the
An F/A-18E Super Hornet, attached to the "Wildcats" of Strike Fighter Squadron 131, prepares for flight operations aboard the Nimitz-class aircraft carrier USS Dwight D. Eisenhower in the Red Sea, March 12.

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