(WIP)
Specifications
Crew: 1
Length: 60.3 ft (18.38 m)
Height: 16 ft (4.88 m)
Wingspan: 44.9 ft (13.68 m) w/ missiles
Wing area: 500 sq ft (46.45 m²)
Weights:
- 31,500 lb (14,288 kg) empty
- 66,000 lb (29,938 kg) maximum takeoff
- 42,900 lb (19,459 kg) maximum carrier landing
Fuel (JP-8):
- Internal: 14,480 lb (6,568 kg)
- External: 9,590 lb (4,349 kg) with 3× FPU-12/A fuel tanks
Powerplant: 2× F414-GE-400
- Uninstalled intermediate thrust: 11,000 lbf (61.8 kN)
- Uninstalled maximum thrust: 20,700 lbf (92.1 kN)
- Installed maximum thrust at sea level:
- @ Mach 0.8: 22,299 lbf (99.1 kN)
- @ Mach 0.9: 23,249 lbf (103.4 kN)
- @ Mach 1.0: 23,158 lbf (103 kN)
- @ Mach 1.2: 19,226 lbf (85.5 kN)
- Installed maximum thrust at 5,000 ft (1.5 km):
- @ Mach 0.8: 20,112 lbf (89.5 kN)
- @ Mach 0.9: 20,622 lbf (91.7 kN)
- @ Mach 1.0: 21,208 lbf (94.3 kN)
- @ Mach 1.2: 20,576 lbf (91.5 kN)
- Installed maximum thrust at 20,000 ft (6.1 km):
- @ Mach 0.8: 13,475 lbf (59.9 kN)
- @ Mach 0.9: 14,402 lbf (64.1 kN)
- @ Mach 1.0: 15,339 lbf (68.2 kN)
- @ Mach 1.2: 16,756 lbf (74.5 kN)
- @ Mach 1.4: 17,426 lbf (77.5 kN)
- Installed maximum thrust at 40,000 ft (12.2 km):
- @ Mach 0.8: 5,681 lbf (26.1 kN)
- @ Mach 0.9: 6,301 lbf (28 kN)
- @ Mach 1.0: 6,983 lbf (31.1 kN)
- @ Mach 1.2: 8,481 lbf (37.7 kN)
- @ Mach 1.4: 10,048 lbf (44.7 kN)
- @ Mach 1.6: 10,920 lbf (48.6 kN)
Performances:
(Note: ‘fighter escort configuration’ is 60% internal fuel, 2× AIM-9 Sidewinder, 2× AIM-120 AMRAAM)
- Maximum speed (fighter escort configuration):
- @ Sea level: Mach 1.01
- @ 35,000 ft (10.6 km): Mach 1.6
- Design limit speed (fighter escort configuration):
- @ Sea level: Mach 1.1
- @ 35,000 ft (10.6 km): Mach 2.0
- Altitude: 53,000 ft (16,154 m)
- Sustained turn rate (fighter escort configuration):
- @ Sea level: 18°/s
- @ 15,000 ft (4.5 km): 11.6°/s
- Acceleration time (fighter escort configuration):
- @ 5,000 ft (1.5 km), from Mach 0.8-1.08: 52.8 seconds
- @ 20,000 ft (6.1 km), from Mach 0.8-1.2: 50.3 seconds
- @ 35,000 ft (10.6 km), from Mach 0.8-1.2: 64.85 seconds
- Thrust-to-weight (fighter escort configuration):
- @ Sea level, static: 0.845
- @ 5,000 ft (1.5 km), Mach 0.9: 0.981
- @ 20,000 ft (6.1 km), Mach 0.9: 0.685
- @ 35,000 ft (10.6 km), Mach 0.9: 0.385
- Specific excess power (1 g level flight, Mach 0.9, fighter escort configuration):
- @ 10,000 ft (3 km): 663 ft/s (202 m/s)
- @ 20,000 ft (6.1 km): 480 ft/s (146 m/s)
- @ 35,000 ft (10.6 km: 234 ft/s (71 m/s)
- Maximum command limit g: -3 ~ +10 g
- Angle-of-attack limitations: None (in any symmetric configurations)
- Pitch rate: in exceed of 50°/s
- Takeoff distance at 48,942 lb (22,200 kg) gross weight: 1,443 ft (440 m)
- Landing distance at 34,943 lb (15,850 kg) gross weight: 2,559 ft (780 m)
- Approach speed: 125 kt (231 km/h)
- Radar cross section: 0.1 m² (0 dBsm)
Armaments:
- Hardpoints: 11 total (2× wingtip, 6× under wing, 3× fuselage) for 17,747 lb (8,050 kg) of ordnances
- Gun: 1× M61A2 20 mm gun (412 rounds)
- Air-to-air missiles:
- 8× AIM-7M/P Sparrow
- 12× AIM-9L/M/X Sidewinder
- 12× AIM-120B/C/D AMRAAM
- 4× AIM-174B
- Air-to-surface missiles:
- 6× AGM-65E/F Maverick
- 4× AGM-84D Harpoon
- 4× AGM-84E SLAM
- 4× AGM-84H/K SLAM-ER
- 6× AGM-88A/B/C HARM
- 6× AGM-88E AARGM
- 6× AGM-88G AARGM-ER
- 4× AGM-158C LRASM
- 18× AGM-179 JAGM (tested)
- Guided bombs:
- 4× AGM-154A/A-1/C JSOW
- 7× GBU-12/16 Paveway II
- 4× GBU-24B Paveway III
- 4× GBU-31 JDAM
- 11× GBU-32/38 JDAM
- 8× GBU-53 Stormbreaker
- 11× GBU-54 LJDAM
- Unguided bombs:
- 11× Mk 20 Rockeye cluster bombs
- 11× Mk 82/83 general-purpose bombs
- 4× Mk 84 general-purpose bombs
- 11× Mk 82 Snakeye high-drag bombs
- 11× Mk 83 AIR high-drag bombs
- 11× Mk 84 AIR high-drag bombs
Avionics:
- Radar:
- Hughes AN/APG-73 RUG II
- Raytheon AN/APG-79 (since Lot 26)
- RWR: AN/ALR-67(V)3
- Band: C-K
- Targeting pod:
- AN/ASQ-228 ATFLIR
- IRST: AN/ASG-34A(V)1 (podded)
- HMD: JHMCS
- Night vision device: Vision Systems NVCD
Countermeasures:
- Chaff/Flare: 4× AN/ALE-47 (120 total)
- Towed decoy: 3× AN/ALE-50 AAED or AN/ALE-55 FOTD
- DIRCM: 2× TADIRCM (tested)
- ECM: AN/ALQ-214(V)4 IDECM
Sources
- ADP014165 Affordable Evolution: Engineering Change Proposal [ECP] 6038 F/A-18E/F Forward Fuselage Structural Certification by Mark K. Holly
- Air Force Magazine July 2001
- AN/ALE-50 brochure from Meggitt Defense Systems
- AN/ALE-50 brochure from Raytheon
- AN/ASQ-228 ATFLIR brochure from Raytheon
- An Illustrated Guide to Modern Fighter Combat (1987) by Mike Spick
- Chapter 1 Radar Fundamentals by 곽영길
- Combat effectiveness of the joint helmet mounted cueing system by Taylor N. Thorson
- F/A-18 Hornet in Action No.214 by Lou Drendel
- F/A-18E/F Super Hornet: 21 Century Capability…Affordability…Now from Boeing
- F/A-18E and F/A-18F Hornet in detail & scale by Bert Kinzey
- Fighter Aircraft Avionics Part III by Solo Hermelin
- Fundamentals of Aircraft and Airship Design: Volume I — Aircraft Design by Leland M. Nicolai, Grant E. Carichner
- Lockheed Martin’s JAGM Successfully Completes Flying Qualities Tests On Navy’s Super Hornet from Lockheed Martin
- Low-cost PC-based high-fidelity infrared signature modelling and simulation by Shahid Baqar
- McDonnell Douglas F/A-18 Hornet (Classic Warplanes) by Mike Spick
- McDonnell Douglas F/A-18 Hornet and Super Hornet Owners’ Workshop Manual: 1978 onwards (all marks) by Steve Davies
- MDC 91B0220 F/A-18E/F Configuration Baseline from McDonnell Aircraft Company
- NAVEDTRA 12308 Aviation Ordnanceman 3&2 (1990) (Distribution Statement A)
- NAVEDTRA 14313 Aviation Ordnanceman 3&2 (2001) (Distribution Statement A)
- NSIAD 96-98 from United States General Accounting Office
- Osprey Combat Aircraft 46: US Navy Hornet Units of Operation Iraqi Freedom Part One by Tony Holmes
- Osprey Combat Aircraft Series: F/A-18 Hornet by Lindsay Peacock
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- Raytheon Advanced Forward Looking Infrared (ATFLIR) Pod by Gerald Uyeno
- Realizing the Combat Power of Network Centric Operations by CDR John ‘Snooze’ Martins
- Risk Management Lessons Learned from the APG-79 Radar Test Planning and Execution from VX-31
- Stealth Warfare by David Alexander
- Tactical DIRCM Jamming: Pod - Early Operational Assessment from Naval Research Laboratory
- Target and Clutter Characteristics 9.1. Target Cross Section
- Terminator ATFLIR brochure from Raytheon
- The Development of an Assault Directed Infrared Countermeasures (DIRCM) Program by Tracy Anne Barkhimer
- The F/A-18E/F Super Hornet: A Test Pilot Dispels The Myths by CDR Rob Niewoehner
- The F/A-18E/F Super Hornet: Tomorrow’s Air Power Today
- The Jet Engine from Rolls Royce
- The Journal of Electronic Defense Vol.38 No.6: Missile Warning for Fighter Aircraft from the Association of Old Crows
- Using Helmet Mounted Displays to Designate and Locate Targets in the Urban Environment by Freddie Paul Henderson
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- Warplanes of the Fleet by David Donald
