{"id":20443,"date":"2024-09-19T21:58:34","date_gmt":"2024-09-19T18:58:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liberalglobe.com\/?p=20443"},"modified":"2024-09-19T21:58:34","modified_gmt":"2024-09-19T18:58:34","slug":"us-air-force-tests-f-a-18-super-hornet-in-beast-mode-air-superiority","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.liberalglobe.com\/?p=20443","title":{"rendered":"US Air Force tests F\/A-18 Super Hornet in &#8216;Beast Mode&#8217; air superiority"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Very interesting photos of F\/A-18 Super Hornet fighter jet. The photos show a US Navy F\/A-18 Super Hornet in &#8216;Beast Mode&#8217; of air superiority. The aircraft carries nine long-, medium- and short-range air-to-air missiles. Specifically, it carries four AIM-174B long-range missiles, three AIM-120 AMRAAM medium-range missiles and two AIM-9X Sidewinder short-range missiles. As the post states, this particular F\/A-18 Super Hornet belongs to the 9th Test and Evaluation Squadron (VX-9). The AIM-174B missile is the aviation version of the SM-6 naval anti-aircraft missile. It should also be noted that the aircraft also carries an infrared search and target detection (IRST) system, in the central mounting station, and an ATFLIR targeting pod.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Very interesting photos of F\/A-18 Super Hornet fighter jet. The photos show a US Navy F\/A-18 Super Hornet in &#8216;Beast Mode&#8217; of air superiority&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":20444,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1808],"tags":[5930,5929,5928,1953],"class_list":["post-20443","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-defense-space","tag-air-superiority","tag-beast-mode","tag-f-a-18-super-hornet","tag-usaf"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.liberalglobe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20443","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.liberalglobe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.liberalglobe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.liberalglobe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.liberalglobe.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=20443"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.liberalglobe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20443\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20445,"href":"https:\/\/www.liberalglobe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20443\/revisions\/20445"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.liberalglobe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/20444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.liberalglobe.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20443"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.liberalglobe.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20443"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.liberalglobe.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20443"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}