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The North American F-100 Super Sabre is an American supersonic jet fighter aircraft designed and produced by the aircraft manufacturer North American Aviation.The first of the Century Series of American jet fighters, it was the first United States Air Force (USAF) fighter capable of supersonic speed in level flight.
This is a List of F-100 Units of the United States Air Force by wing, squadron, location, tailcode, features, variant, and service dates. During the 1960s, squadrons were transferred regularly to different wings and bases temporarily, and sometimes permanently.
Clockwise from bottom: F-104 Starfighter, F-100 Super Sabre, F-102 Delta Dagger, F-101 Voodoo, and F-105 Thunderchief The Century Series is a popular name for a group of US fighter aircraft representing models designated between F-100 and F-106 which went into full production.
The F-107 was never given an official name, but was sometimes informally called the "Super Super Sabre" [11] referring to North American's earlier fighter design, the F-100 Super Sabre. [12] The designation "F-107A" was the only one assigned to the aircraft, [12] [13] though "YF-107A" is often used in publications.
Intended to be a relatively simple upgrade to the F-84 Thunderjet [34] to make it more competitive with the F-86 Sabre. 1950 1954 3,428 F-100 Super Sabre: Fighter; Fighter-bomber; North American Aviation Capable of supersonic speed in level flight. 1953 1954 2,294 F-102 Delta Dagger: Interceptor Convair
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North American F-100 Super Sabre, a fighter aircraft formerly in the service of the United States Air Force; Fokker 100, a regional jet; Pratt & Whitney F100, afterburning turbofan engine; Álvaro de Bazán-class frigate (also known as the F100 class), in the service with the Spanish Armada Española
It was subsequently adopted as standard armament of the F-86H fighter-bomber, F-100 Super Sabre, F-101A and F-101C Voodoo, and the F-5 Freedom Fighter. The M39 was also used on the B-57B tactical bomber. Current models of the F-5 Tiger II still use the M39A2 version of this weapon. The M39A2 was introduced in 1964. [3]