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The Panavia Tornado is a family of twin-engine, variable-sweep wing multi-role combat aircraft, jointly developed and manufactured by Italy, the United Kingdom and Germany. [a] There are three primary Tornado variants: the Tornado IDS ( interdictor / strike) fighter-bomber, the Tornado ECR ( electronic combat / reconnaissance) SEAD aircraft and ...
The ASCC became the Five Eyes Air Force Interoperability Council and no longer has responsibility for generating reporting names. NATO reporting name. Common name. Faceplate. Mikoyan-Gurevich Ye-2. Fagin. Chengdu J-20 [2] Fagot. Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-15 [3]
The General Dynamics F-16 Fighting Falcon is an American single-engine supersonic multirole fighter aircraft originally developed by General Dynamics for the United States Air Force (USAF). Designed as an air superiority day fighter, it evolved into a successful all-weather multirole aircraft with over 4,600 built since 1976. [4]
The Vought F4U Corsair is an American fighter aircraft that saw service primarily in World War II and the Korean War. Designed and initially manufactured by Chance Vought, the Corsair was soon in great demand; additional production contracts were given to Goodyear, whose Corsairs were designated FG, and Brewster, designated F3A .
Classification. In 1990, air historian Richard P. Hallion proposed a classification of jet fighters into six generations up to that time. These may be broadly described as subsonic, transonic, supersonic, Mach 2, multi-mission, and high-manoeuverability. [2] Other schemes comprising five generations up to around the same period have since been ...
Fourth-generation fighter. The fourth-generation fighter is a class of jet fighters in service from around 1980 to the present, and represents design concepts of the 1970s. Fourth-generation designs are heavily influenced by lessons learned from the previous generation of combat aircraft. Third-generation fighters were often designed primarily ...
Light fighter. The General Dynamics YF-16 and Northrop YF-17 were competing designs in the US Lightweight Fighter program. A light fighter or lightweight fighter is a fighter aircraft towards the low end of the practical range of weight, cost, and complexity over which fighters are fielded. [1] [2] The light or lightweight fighter retains ...
