Five new Boeing F/A-18F Super Hornets have arrived at Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF) Base Amberley, expanding the RAAF’s fleet of the advanced multirole fighters to 20. Three aircraft landed at the base on July 14 and were joined by two additional Super Hornets on Aug. 3.
The RAAF is acquiring 24 Super Hornets under the current delivery contract. Twelve of the aircraft, including the five delivered in July and this month, are prewired during production at Boeing facilities in St. Louis for potential conversion to electronic attack capability.
