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Luftwaffe multirole bomber, heavy fighter and reconnaissance aircraft. Hawker Hurricane: M: Fighter 14,487 United Kingdom: 1937: 1944 Including production in Canada and a few built in Belgium and Yugoslavia. Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-21: M: Jet fighter 13,996 Soviet Union: 1959: 1985 Most-produced supersonic aircraft.
In the US Air Force the naming convention for fighter aircraft is a prefix "F-", followed by a number, ground attack aircraft are prefixed with “A-” and bombers with “B-”. Fighter aircraft from the second world war onwards are sorted into generations, from 1 to 5, based on technological level. [1] [2] An American F-16 fighter jet
Carrier-based fighter aircraft Goodyear Aircraft: Developed from the Vought F4U Corsair. 1945 1945 10 + 1 Prototype FH Phantom: Carrier-based fighter aircraft McDonnell Aircraft: First purely jet-powered aircraft to land on an American aircraft carrier in 1946. [98] [99] 1945 [98] 1947 [34] [98] [99] 62 [34] [98] FJ-1 Fury: Fighter North ...
Earlier this month, we presented a side-by-side (by side) comparison of some of the cheapest -- and most expensive -- combat aircraft in the world. Topping the list was Lockheed Martin's F-22 ...
MK-2: multi-role fighter aircraft MKK: strike-fighter aircraft Chinese variant of Su-30 134 Su-30МK: 1 July 1997 2000, December 2000–present - Su-30MKI: Flanker H air superiority fighter Indian Air Force variant of Su-30 230 (February 2017) Su-30МK: 1 July 1997 Su-30MKI: 2000 2002, September 27 Su-30MKI: 2000–present - Su-80: None
The Me 262 was the first operational jet fighter. The earliest jet fighters appeared during and after the last years of World War II. They were similar in most respects to their piston-engined contemporaries, having straight, effectively unswept wings and being of wood and/or light alloy construction.
The Sukhoi Su-57 (Russian: Сухой Су-57; NATO reporting name: Felon) [5] [6] is a twin-engine stealth multirole fighter aircraft developed by Sukhoi. [7] It is the product of the PAK FA (Russian: ПАК ФА, prospective aeronautical complex of front-line aviation) programme, which was initiated in 1999 as a more modern and affordable alternative to the MFI (Mikoyan Project 1.44/1.42).
What are F-35 fighter jets? The F-35 Lightning II is a single-seat, single-engine fighter jet created by Lockheed Martin. Each jet costs about $100 million, according to Madison's Channel 3000. It ...