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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 ...
The Shenyang J-16, also known as Qianlong (simplified Chinese: 潜龙; traditional Chinese: 潛龍; pinyin: Qián Lóng; lit. 'Hyphalosaurus or hidden dragon') is a Chinese all-weather 4.5 generation, [2] [3] tandem-seat, twin-engine, multirole strike fighter [4] [1] built by Shenyang Aircraft Corporation and operated by the People's Liberation Army Air Force (PLAAF).
The North American F-86 Sabre, sometimes called the Sabrejet, is a transonic jet fighter aircraft.Produced by North American Aviation, the Sabre is best known as the United States' first swept-wing fighter that could counter the swept-wing Soviet MiG-15 in high-speed dogfights in the skies of the Korean War (1950–1953), fighting some of the earliest jet-to-jet battles in history.
China showed off its new stealth aircraft, including the fifth-gen J-35A. ... The air show was the first official look at the land-based J-35A, a fighter jet that has been in the works, in one ...
The use of metal aircraft structures was pioneered before World War I by Breguet but would find its biggest proponent in Anthony Fokker, who used chrome-molybdenum steel tubing for the fuselage structure of all his fighter designs, while the innovative German engineer Hugo Junkers developed two all-metal, single-seat fighter monoplane designs ...
This category includes all fighter aircraft. This includes fighter-bombers, strike fighters, night fighters escort fighters, interceptor aircraft, etc. Subcategories.
The aircraft is powered by the AL-31FN M1; [52] one unit was flown with a WS-10A in July 2011 but that engine was not selected for the initial production batch. [53] The aircraft's first flight occurred no later than December 2008. [54] J-10B TVC Demonstrator: A prototype fighter based on J-10B that is equipped with WS-10B thrust-vectoring ...
The Lockheed Martin/Boeing F-22 Raptor is an American twin-engine, all-weather, supersonic stealth fighter aircraft.As a product of the United States Air Force's Advanced Tactical Fighter (ATF) program, the aircraft was designed as an air superiority fighter, but also incorporates ground attack, electronic warfare, and signals intelligence capabilities.