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First Deployment of AESA Equipped Super Hornets Making Big Impression

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Thursday, July 24th, 2008

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By Geoff Fein The Block II F/A-18F active electronically scanned array (AESA)-equipped Super Hornets are providing a significant advancement in technology over legacy systems, according to a Navy official. "The radar is unlike anything I have ever seen before," Cmdr. Chris Chope, commanding officer VFA-22, told Defense Daily in a telephone interview earlier this week from aboard the USS Ronald Reagan (CVN-76). "The difference in the technology and what it provides us is monumental. This radar affords us so many…

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