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(More customer reviews)This book tells you the history about the F/A-18 Hornet, the book tells you the story of the start of the lightweight fighter competition between the F-16 & YF-17 but the USAF rejected the YF-17. Later on, the USN wanted a lightweight fighter to replace the F-4 & A-6, so the USN & McDonnell Douglas(Now Boeing) went on to design a new plane. The F/A-18 went into services with the USN in the late 70s & early 80s & also shows the Hornet's first sting at Libya. The early production of the Hornet was the A/B model but was replaced by the more improved C/D model. The book also tells you about the Hornets during the Desert Storm which has the highest survivalbility among others jet fighter & how flexible the plane is, eg. like the Hornet shot down 2 enemy MIG-21s when it was on its way on a bombing mission without having to jettision their bomb load & shows how maneuveble the Hornet is. Let us not forget that USN & USMC Hornets participated in Operation Allied Force in 1999. This book also include foreign countries that operate the F/A-18 Hornet & the new devolopment on the E/F model which is call the Super Hornet. Finally, it also shows you all the electronic systems on board the Hornet & the sensors & weapons that are in use with the Hornet. This book also contain good pictures also but it is in black & white but the amazing story will make you like the book.
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From Air Force lightweight to Navy champion strike aircrat, here's the pulse-racing, electrifying story of the F/A hornetIncludes a special beneath-the-surface look at the Hornet's laser-guided weapons and sophisticated electronic countermeasuresPresents profiles of the Hornet's overseas success as an export item, in coutries such as Switzerland, Australia, Spain, and Malaysia
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