Boeing and Navy plan to add five additional new features to the Super Hornet to round out the overall Block III package. That includes a set of conformal fuel tanks that will fit atop the F/A-18E/F’s fuselage, which would extend the Super Hornet’s range by roughly 120 nautical miles. The Block III aircraft would also come off the production line with a 9000-hour life airframe right from the outset. Boeing will also add some improvements to the Super Hornet’s low observables technology—though not as extensively as their 2013 effort that reduced the F/A-18E/F radar cross section by more than half. Here is Why the F/A-18 Super Hornet is Still One Dangerous Fighter