Milestone
Super Hornet shoots down a Syrian Su-22, its first aerial kill
June 18, 2017
On 18 June 2017 an F/A-18E of VFA-87, embarked on USS George H.W. Bush, shot down a Syrian Air Force Su-22 near Tabqa with an AIM-120 AMRAAM after missing with an AIM-9X. It was the first kill by a Super Hornet and the first aerial kill of a crewed aircraft by an American fighter since 1999.