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The North American P-51 Mustang is a long-range, single-seat fighter and fighter-bomber American aircraft that was sued during both World War II and Korean War. This aircraft was developed back in 1940 by the NAA (North American Aviation). The prototype for this aircraft’s NA-73X was designed and rolled out in a mere 102 days after the contract for this was signed. The aircraft took its first flight back on October 26th, 1940. The Mustang was initially designed to use the Allison V-1710 engine, an engine which had limited altitude performance during that time. This fighter jet at that time was…
The General Dynamics F-16 Fighting Falcon started life as a cheap, light day fighter and turned into one of the most widely used combat aircraft ever built. General Dynamics is now part of Lockheed Martin, and more than 4,500 F-16s have been produced since mass production was approved in 1976. The US Air Force no longer buys new ones, but the production line is still running for export customers. Around 25 air forces fly the type. Born from the Lightweight Fighter programme While the F-15 was in development, the Air Force worked out it could never afford enough of them…
The Supermarine Spitfire is a British single seat fighter that served the Royal Air Force and other Allied air forces before, during and long after the Second World War. It is a piston engined, propeller driven aircraft, not a jet, and that distinction matters because almost everything remarkable about it comes from how far its designers pushed propeller technology. It was built in a long run of variants, with most of the changes appearing in the wing. It holds one distinction no other British fighter can claim: it stayed in continuous production right through the war, from before the fighting…
The McDonnell Douglas F-15 Eagle is a twin engine, all weather American fighter built for one purpose: to win air to air combat and keep winning it. More than fifty years after its first flight it is still doing that job, and its combat record is the reason it gets talked about the way it does. The Eagle has been credited with more than 100 air to air victories and no losses in air to air combat. A large share of those kills belong to the Israeli Air Force rather than the US Air Force. No other modern fighter has…
Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-25 is a supersonic interceptor and reconnaissance aircraft, which is, regarded as one of the fastest military aircraft to ever enter in military service. The aircraft was developed initially by the Soviet Union’s Mikoyan-Gurevich Bureau. This is one of the earliest aircraft to be developed by using stainless steel material and was the last plane to be ever designed by Mikhail Gurevich before he left due to his retirement. The first prototype of this war thunter mig-25 aircraft flew back in 1964 and entered in the regular service back in 1970. This state of the art aircraft has a…
There are many aircraft in the world that have exceeded the speed of Mach 2.0. Some of these aircraft were research aircraft while some were flying basically for reconnaissance missions. However, there is always something particular about the supersonic aircraft. Just imagine the feeling when you hear the word ‘Go’ from the radio and pushing that throttle backward and feeling the aircraft’s 100+ knots acceleration to tear through the very barrier of sound and soaring high into the clouds. This is the masterpiece of military engineering. Today for our readers we have compiled a list of fastest military jets in…
A good fighter lets the pilot spend attention on the fight instead of on flying the aeroplane. Every modern fighter is built on that idea. The Lockheed Martin F-22 Raptor took it further than anything before it, and more than two decades after entering service it is still the aircraft other air forces measure themselves against. The programme began in the 1980s, with the design taking shape in the early 1990s. The brief was air to air dominance: replace the ageing F-15 and F-16 in the air superiority role with something that could see first, shoot first and not be…
Eurofighter Typhoon is the only fighter plane in the world that is so advanced that it cannot be simply flown without the help of a computer. This fighter jet is a Twin Engine, Canard –delta wing multirole fighter, which was designed originally for the purpose of being an Air Superiority fighter. This aircraft came into being by the combined efforts of the following leading aviation companies of the world. Airbus BA System Leonardo The aircraft was built although by the consortium of all these companies was majorly conducted under a joint holding company by the name Eurofighter Jagdflugzeug GmbH formed…
The Hungarian Ministry of Defence has recently placed an order with the Airbus for the 16 new H225M multi-purpose helicopters that will also come fully equipped with the HForce Weapon management System. In addition to the delivery of these helicopters, Airbus will also provide the Hungarian pilots with an extensive training and support package for providing the Hungarian Air Force the maximum level of operational availability. These new helicopters will come equipped with state of the art communication capabilities and will be used mostly for the following purposes. Transport Combat search and rescue operations Special operations missions The helicopter comes…
In the tradition of the military aviation, Bomb and Kill Markings are very well known. In particular, when an A-10 Thunderbolt II belonging to the 124th Fighter Wing (Idaho ANG), from Gowen Field, Boise, Idaho, came back on October 24th, 2016 back home from their 6-month tour duty for the support in the “Operation Inherent Resolve”, the aircraft sported many bomb markings. These bomb markings were earned by these aircraft in their air war against “Daesh”. Two years later, the Warthogs of the “Skullbangers” of the 124th Fighter Wing, which flew from Turkey as part of the 190th Expeditionary…