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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 pictures demonstrate the amazing visual effects that occur as military aircraft punch through the sound barrier and travel faster than sound itself. 11 photos of America's fighter jets ...
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
Jet Carrier-based Fighter: Manned [citation needed] 43 [25] For training. [25] F/A-18E/F Super Hornet: McDonnell Douglas / Northrop Grumman / Boeing USA Jet Carrier-based Fighter: Manned 1999 [citation needed] 549 [25] 76 on order [25] The Navy plans to divest 5 F/A-18F variants in FY2025. [99] F-35C Lightning II: Lockheed Martin USA Jet ...
Aircraft Origin Type Variant In service Notes Fighter aircraft (1,690) F-15 Eagle: United States air superiority: F-15C: 145 145 F-15C total force as of September 2023 (USAF Almanac). [1] 29 F-15C - Active. 116 F-15C - Air National Guard. Trainer aircraft listed separately. F-15E Strike Eagle: United States multirole: 218
The Grumman F9F Panther is an early carrier-based jet fighter designed and produced by the American aircraft manufacturer Grumman.It was the first jet-powered fighter aircraft to see air-to-air combat with the United States Navy as well as being Grumman’s first jet fighter.
Fighter and interceptor, most-produced supersonic fighter, widely exported to other air forces, originally to be based on Ye-5 but instead developed from MiG-19 variant SM-12, basis of many other variants: MiG-23: Flogger 1967 Production Fighter and fighter-bomber, most-produced variable-geometry aircraft, originally to be based on Ye-2A or Ye ...
This category includes all fighter aircraft. This includes fighter-bombers, strike fighters, ... Jet fighters (2 C, 2 P) Turret fighters (7 P)