Employing The AGM-88 HARM What is the AGM-88 HARM? The HARM (high-speed anti-radiation missile) is a weapon designed to destroy hostile ground radar emitters. A Superhornet can carry up to 6 HARM. HARM is one of the most useful stores…
Employing The ADM-141 TALD What is TALD? The ADM-141 TALD (Tactical Air-Launched Decoy) is an unpowered gliding body that is released from an aircraft to act as a radar decoy. A Superhornet can carry up to 12 TALD. AI aircraft…
Buddy Lasing And FAC Lasing One of the useful tactical capabilities of modern strike fighters is ability to utilize integrated sensor and targeting information. Part of that capability includes the ability to slave the Superhornet FLIR system to various frequencies…
Carrier Operations The information below is based on numerous fiction and nonfiction accounts of carrier aviation, CV NATOPS carrier procedures, and input from real naval aviators. "Case" Designations Carrier operations fall into one of three categories, or "cases", as governed…
Jammers And Decoys The Superhornet uses a number of advanced electronic systems in order to improve its survivability. Two of the most important of these systems are the ALQ-165 Airborne Self Protection Jammer (ASPJ) and the ALE-50 towed decoy. The…