Hornet (disambiguation)

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A hornet is an insect. It may also mean:

Insects:

• a colloquial term for an American wasp, for example the Bald-faced hornet, White-faced hornet or Cicada killer wasp.

Ships:

• HMS Hornet, any of ten ships of the Royal Navy
• USS Hornet, any of eight ships of the U.S. Navy

Aircraft:

• F/A-18 Hornet, a jet fighter aircraft
  • CF-18 Hornet, a Canadian variant
  • F/A-18E/F Super Hornet
• De Havilland Hornet, a World War II-era combat aircraft
• De Havilland Hornet Moth, a cabin biplane
• Messerschmitt Me 410 Hornisse ("Hornet"), a World War II combat aircraft

Weaponry:

• Medium Mark C Hornet, a British tank
• AGM-64 Hornet, an experimental U.S. missile

Transportation:

• AMC Hornet, a compact car manufactured from 1970 to 1977
• Hudson Hornet, a car manufactured from 1951 to 1957
• Dodge Hornet, a concept car revealed in 2006
• A motorcycle from the Honda CB series
• The Wolseley Hornet,
  • A car of the 1930s
  • a variant of the Mini car model
• A fictional stock car from the game Daytona USA

History:

• The USS Hornet Museum, in Alameda, California, USA

Entertainment:

• A fictional monster in the TV series Code Lyoko
• Hornet (comics), a name shared by three Marvel characters
• Hornet (comic), a British comic of the 1960s-1970s
• Hornet, a vehicle from the video game series Halo.

Sports teams:

• New Orleans Hornets, National Basketball Association team
• Delaware State University Hornets
• California State University, Sacramento Hornets
• Kalamazoo College Hornets

Other uses:

• Hornet Township, Minnesota
• Hornet Archive, a PC demo FTP site from 1992 to 1998, and the name of the group that maintained it
• Hornet SQL Bridge - An Object Relational mapping for Zope and Plone
• Hornet (dinghy)