Originally Posted by
flighthappens
I wouldn’t be so sure.
You are comparing the Super Hornet, clean, of which the single seat version has more fuel, and possibly different assumptions regarding stores expenditure, certainly drag index.
This USN website has a 850+NM range for the EA-18G when combat loaded. If you halve that you end up 425NM. ALQ99 and AGM88 are heavy and draggy, particularly when not aligned with the airflow on outward canted pylons.
https://www.navy.mil/navydata/fact_d...0&tid=950&ct=1
The F-35B has a target combat radius of of 450NM but it achieves 510NM. Significantly less than the C but more the F-18