⚡️🇺🇲 Pictured: Underbelly of an F/A-18F from VX-9 with:
4x AIM-174B Standard ERAM
3x AIM-120C AMRAAM with fins removed
2x AIM-9X Sidewinder
1x TGP
1x AN/ASG-34A(V)1 IRST21 Block 2 Pod

Actual Murder Hornet😁

@planenerd

Mind you this is an Air Test and Evaluation Squadron. This is most likely a stress test and will be overkill in an actual engagement.

Spreading out your "Force/Murder Capabilities" across the strike package is more desirable as Losing a single plane in a heavily armed strike package would mean losing a significant portion of your firepower.
Though it would be hard to get close (I am just coping, nothing can shoot this plane down 😭)

This mirrors modern tactics where networked systems, like data sharing between aircraft or between different branches (air, land, sea), aim to make the force as a whole more lethal and less dependent on any one platform.

@planenerd

⚡️🇸🇬 Singapore to buy fifty four (54) AIM-120C-8 Advanced Medium Range Air-to-Air Missiles (AMRAAM)

@planenerd

🇺🇲⚡️🇷🇴 US State Department authorized a proposed Foreign Military Sale to Romania for 32 F-35 Aircraft and related equipment for an estimated cost of $7.2 billion. Further details will be shared as more information is available

@planenerd

⚡️🇧🇩 Bangladesh Airforce F-7BGI and Mig-29BM in formation

@planenerd

⚡🇮🇳🇺🇲 Indian Navy crashed its MQ-9B drone in the sea of Chennai, which it had taken on lease for surveillance purposes in 2020.

@ThePakistanRepublic