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The Dassault Mirage 2000 is a fighter jet developed by the Dassault Aviation; a French aircraft building company. This French fighter jet is a multirole and singe engine fourth-generation jet fighter that was designed by the French Air Force back in the 1970s. This aircraft was designed to replace the Mirage III of the French Air Force as a lightweight fighter. Since the initial design, there had been many variants of this aircraft built in the past 50 years and has been sold to a number of nations across the world. Dassault Mirage 2000 was further developed into Mirage 2000N…

Grumman F-14 Tomcat is the first American jet fighter that was built with twin tails. It is a supersonic, twin engine, twin tail and a variable sweep wing fighter aircraft which was developed for the US Navy’s Naval Fighter Experiment Program titled as VFX. The Grumman F-14 Tomcat was one of the Teen Series of fighter jets which were developed after comparing the air combat data against the MiG fighter jets during the Vietnam War. The very first Grumman F-14 Tomcat took its first flight back on December 21st, 1970 and entered in the US Navy back in 1974. The…

Saab JAS 39 Gripen is a single seat, light single-engine multirole fighter aircraft that was the result of the ingenious work by the engineers of the Swedish Aerospace company known by the name of Saab. Saab JAS 39 Gripen was designed in order to replace the Saab 35 Draken and 37 Viggen, the former fighter jets of the Swedish Air Force. Saab JAS 39 Gripen’s design has delta wing and a canard configuration which allows the aircraft to have stable design overall along with its fly-by-wire flight control system. Saab JAS 39 Gripen can reach up to the speed of…

Dassault Rafale which literally pronounces from French to English as “Gust of Wind” or more commonly called by the military as the “Burst of Fire” is a French single-seat, twin-engine and multirole fighter jet which was developed by the Dassault Aviation to serve in the French Air Force. The Dassault Rafale was designed to perform the following aerial goals for the FAF. Air supremacy Interdiction Aerial reconnaissance Ground support In-depth strike Anti-ship strike Nuclear deterrence mission In the late 1970s period, many of the European countries shared their resources and workforce to develop what was later a “Eurofighter Typhoon”. However,…

While the fighter jets are the primary powerhouse of any of the word Air Force, the attack helicopters also are essential for carrying out many missions. The purpose of these attack helicopters is to chase after the enemy troop formations and guard the friendlies in the line of combat. Today for our readers we have brought to you a list of the best military attack helicopters in the world. Ka-52 “Alligator” Ka-25 is a military attack helicopter that is able to operate efficiently in the high altitude and with fast speed. This is a two seater helicopter that beats the…

When the weirdly designed Stratolaunch take off for the first time as it is expected to do so in 2019, it will break the record which has been standing for more than 71 years. No other aircraft in the world has the massive wingspan like the Howard Hughes’ H-4 Hercules. However, these are not the means to measure the size of an aircraft. Some other parameters to measure the size of an aircraft include weight, length, or even their volume. Today we have decided to present to our readers, after taking into consideration various size measurement parameters for aircraft, the…

There has been only one opinion about the plane crashes and that is that it normally leads to 100 percent mortality rate in such cases. However, according to the official survey, the statistics show that nearly 95 percent of the passengers, involved in air carrier accidents in the US in between years 1983 to 2000, survived. What’s even more mind-boggling is that only 1 plane out of 1.2 million flights crashes and the possibility of someone dying in it is nearly 1 in 11 million. As for the chances of dying in a car accident are much higher at 1…

Chengdu J-20 is a traditional Chinese is a single seat, twin jet and all-weather Stealth jet fighter of Fifth Generation fighter jets. This fighter jet was developed by China’s Chengdu Aerospace Corporation to serve in the PLAAF (People’s Liberation Army Air Force). This aircraft’s design descended from the J-XX aircraft’s design from the early 1990s. The J-20 was designed to be an Air Superiority fighter jet with precision striking ability. The first prototype of this aircraft was ready by the end of 2010 and it underwent high-speed taxiing tests at the Chengdu Aircraft Design Institute. Many notable changes were made…

The Messerschmitt Me262 or more commonly known by its nickname “Schwalbe” is the world very first operational jet-powered fighter aircraft. It is the first of the Fighter-Bomber class. The design work for this aircraft started before World War II. However, the design had many problems related to its engine and metallurgy which kept interfering with the operational status of this aircraft for Luftwaffe until 1944. The Messerschmitt Me262 aircraft at that time was much faster than any of the Allied fighter jets and that also included it being faster than the British jet power ‘Gloster Meteor” aircraft. Messerschmitt Me262, which…

North American F-86 Sabre or most commonly known as “Sabrejet” is a transonic jet fighter aircraft developed by NAA (North American Aviation). This aircraft is known to b the first of the USA’s swept wing fighter jets that were able to counter against the Soviet Union’s swept wing MiG-15 in the high-speed dogfights that occurred during the Korean War from years in between 1950-1953. This aircraft as known to be one of the most important fighter jets of the Korean War era while it was also highly comparable to fighter jets of other eras as well. The aircraft was developed…