We fly the single-seat variant of the Navy’s newest strike fighter aircraft, the F/A-18E Super Hornet. Our aircraft is designed for traditional air superiority, fighter escort, reconnaissance,...

Strike Fighter Squadron 81 (VFA-81), also known as the "Sunliners", is a United States Navy F/A-18E Super Hornet strike fighter squadron stationed at Naval Air Station Oceana. They are currently assigned to Carrier Air Wing 1 .

As three VFA-81 and one VFA-83 Rampager aircraft flew into Iraq on CVW-17's first daylight strike of the war, they were confronted by two Iraqi Mig-21s. Sunliner LCDR Mark "MRT" Fox, and LT Nick "Mongo" Mongillo each downed one enemy aircraft before proceeding to …

4个 vfa 大黄蜂中队，配备f/a-18c大黄蜂或f/a-18e/f超级大黄蜂。大黄蜂中队是10架飞机；超级大黄蜂中队是12架。有时，会有陆战队的 vmfa （配备f/a-18c）中队编进来，陆战队的大黄蜂中队是12架飞机。通常，4个中队包括1个f/a-18c大黄蜂中队、2个f/a-18e超级大黄蜂中队 ...

2016年10月18日 · VFA-81 operating the Boeing F/A-18C Hornet participated in Operation Desert Shield. Desert Shield was the American and Allied force build-up to counter a threatened Saudi Arabian invasion by Iraq and as part of an economic blockade of Iraq to …

new ways of operating, training, manning, and maintaining the Fleet and the Sunliners of VFA 81 were up to the challenge. The KENNEDY Carrier Strike Group (CSG) was the first Strike Group to prepare, train and deploy under the new Fleet Response Plan.

Strike Fighter Squadron EIGHT ONE (VFA-81) "Sunliners" are assigned to Carrier Air Wing 17, presently deployed onboard USS GEORGE WASHINGTON (CVN-73). They were one of the first carrier based...

2021年3月15日 · However, the first Coalition aircraft shot down was an F/A-18 of Strike-Fighter Squadron (VFA-181), off Saratoga, flown by LCDR Michael “Scott” Speicher, probably by an Iraqi Mig-25 Foxbat in the...

On February 4, 1988, VA-81 transitioned to the F/A-18C Hornet and was redesignated Strike Fighter Squadron (VFA) 81. The squadron made three deployments aboard USS Saratoga (CV 3) between 1990...

Upon arrival to Virginia Beach, Virginia, report in the appropriate uniform for the season, dress blues or dress whites, and a regulation haircut to: DIRECTIONS TO THE SQUADRON FROM NORFOLK...