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Comment on McDonnell F3H Demon by The Vought F-8 Crusader was a single-engine, supersonic, carrier-based air superiority jet aircraft built by Vought for the United States Navy and the U.S. Marine Corps. » Fighter Aircraft

Mon, 16 Jan 2012 18:20:13 +0000

[...] design was not the only proposed design as Grumman also proposed F-11 Tiger, McDonnell came with F3H Demon and North American suggested F-100 Super Sabre. Finally, the Vought design team won the competition [...]

Comment on McDonnell Douglas F-4 Phantom II by The de Havilland DH.110 Sea Vixen is a twin boom 1950s–1960s British two-seat jet fighter of the Fleet Air Arm designed by de Havilland. » Fighter Aircraft

Mon, 16 Jan 2012 16:58:45 +0000

[...] HMS Bulwark and HMS Ark Royal. But in 1972, Sea Vixen had to end its military career after the F-4 Phantom II taking its place. A total of 145 units of Sea Vixen had been built and proved satisfying to the [...]

Comment on Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-21 by The Northrop F-5A/B Freedom Fighter and the F-5E/F Tiger II are part of a family of widely-used light supersonic fighter aircraft, designed and built by Northrop. » Fighter Aircraft

Mon, 16 Jan 2012 15:12:09 +0000

[...] in early 1970s, as the Soviet MiG-21 was still a big threat to the USA and its NATO allies, a program called International Fighter [...]

Comment on Northrop T-38 Talon by The Northrop F-5A/B Freedom Fighter and the F-5E/F Tiger II are part of a family of widely-used light supersonic fighter aircraft, designed and built by Northrop. » Fighter Aircraft

Mon, 16 Jan 2012 15:08:21 +0000

[...] of the N-156T to replace the T-333 Shooting Star trainer aircraft. The first model then designated YT-38 Talon which had its first flight in June 1959. As of January 1972, a total of 1,158 Talons had been built [...]

Comment on Northrop F-5 by The Northrop T-38 Talon is a twin-engine supersonic jet trainer. It was the world’s first supersonic trainer and is also the most produced. The T-38 remains in service as of 2011 in air forces throughout the world. » Fighter Aircraft

Mon, 16 Jan 2012 14:58:01 +0000

[...] began to develop T-38 design in the 1950′s, even before the company developed the F-5 supersonic fighter. In fact, the T-38 airframe that became the basis of the light combat aircraft [...]

Comment on Douglas A-4 Skyhawk by The Northrop F-5A/B Freedom Fighter and the F-5E/F Tiger II are part of a family of widely-used light supersonic fighter aircraft, designed and built by Northrop. » Fighter Aircraft

Mon, 16 Jan 2012 02:39:17 +0000

[...] to the prototype as this military branch wanted a reconnaissance and close-support. Along with the Douglas A-4 Skyhawk and Fiat G.91, the N-156F was under test and evaluation and proved capable during the Army testing. [...]

Comment on LTV A-7 Corsair II by The Sukhoi Su-17 Fitter – a Soviet attack and fighter-bomber aircraft developed from the Sukhoi Su-7 fighter-bomber. » Fighter Aircraft

Wed, 11 Jan 2012 17:27:24 +0000

[...] Su-17 had become a mainstay of them because this plane had a combat capability which equivalent to A-7 Corsair II, IAR 93, SEPECAT Jaguar, Soko J-22 Orao and Nanchang Q- [...]

Comment on Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-21 by The Sukhoi Su-25 Frogfoot – a single-seat, twin-engine jet aircraft developed in the Soviet Union by the Sukhoi Design Bureau. » Fighter Aircraft

Tue, 10 Jan 2012 21:16:20 +0000

[...] how important the role of ground-attack aircraft. Some Soviet jet fighters of that era such as the MiG-21, MiG-23, Su-7, and Su-17 were not able to provide results that were expected to protect the Soviet [...]

Comment on Lockheed S-3 Viking by The Boeing F/A-18E/F Super Hornet – A twin-engine carrier-based multirole fighter aircraft andmore advanced derivatives of the F/A-18C and D Hornet. » Fighter Aircraft

Tue, 10 Jan 2012 20:15:42 +0000

[...] task performed by the A-6 Intruder, but also other Navy aircrafts such as the F-14, A-6 Intruder, Lockheed S-3 Viking, and KA-6D. Even its electronic warfare version, the EA-18G Growler, also has a task of replacing [...]

Comment on F/A-18 Hornet by The Boeing F/A-18E/F Super Hornet – A twin-engine carrier-based multirole fighter aircraft andmore advanced derivatives of the F/A-18C and D Hornet. » Fighter Aircraft

Tue, 10 Jan 2012 20:15:27 +0000

[...] Boeing F/A-18E/F Super Hornet is the latest generation of F/A-18 Hornet family. The aircraft was developed after the United States Navy project to have a reliable [...]