Super & Growler Country

RAAF Super Hornet operations mature as preparations for the electronic attack Growler gear up

It’s now the best part of a decade since then Minister of Defence Brendon Nelson convinced Federal Cabinet’s National Security Committee to spend $6. 6 billion to forestall a looming air combat capability gap.

The fighter selected was Boeing’s F/A-18F Super Hornet Block II, procured in order to maintain Australia’s regional air combat edge between the retirement of the F-111 and the introduction of the F-35.