Jet fighter generations classify the major technology leaps in the historical development of the jet fighter. Different authorities have identified different...
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A sixth-generation fighter is a conceptualized class of jet fighter aircraft design more advanced than the fifth-generation jet fighters that are currently...
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A fifth-generation fighter is a jet fighter aircraft classification which includes major technologies developed during the first part of the 21st century...
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The fourth-generation fighter is a class of jet fighters in service from around 1980 to the present, and represents design concepts of the 1970s. Fourth-generation...
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Like jet fighter generations, main battle tanks are often classified as belonging to a particular generation, although the actual definition and membership...
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Boeing F-47 (redirect from F-47 Fighter Jet)
Jaramillo, Alejandra (21 March 2025). "Trump announces new US sixth-generation fighter jet that will be built by Boeing". Politics. CNN. Archived from the...
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Future Combat Air System (redirect from New Generation Fighter)
vehicles (swarming drones) as well as a New Generation Fighter (NGF)—a planned sixth-generation jet fighter[better source needed]—that will possibly supersede...
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aviation community to classify jet fighters by "generations" for historical purposes. No official definitions of these generations exist; rather, they represent...
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features of a fighter apart from its firepower include its high speed and maneuverability. Fighter aircraft are sorted into generations, from one to five...
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Chengdu J-10 (redirect from J-10C fighter jet)
air-to-air missiles. Justin Bronk describes the J-10C as a 4.5 generation jet fighter. J-10CE: Export version of J-10C. J-10CY: Aerobatics variant of...
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Chengdu J-36 (category 2020s Chinese fighter aircraft)
J-36's primary role or its specific capabilities. It is unclear what jet fighter generation and tactical usage the aircraft would be classified under, as the...
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future generation fighter aircraft. This version was also called the Alpha Jet 3 or Lancier. Alpha Jet Al-Ghait: A single Moroccan Alpha Jet E modified...
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win with fighter jet contract: Reuters". CNBC. 21 March 2025. Retrieved 21 March 2025. "Boeing Wins F-47 Next Generation Air Dominance Fighter Contract"...
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Tactical Support Fighter". Bristol's projected vectored thrust engine, which received the name Pegasus, harnessed rotatable "cold" jets which were positioned...
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Chengdu J-7 (redirect from J-7 (fighter))
(Chinese: 歼-7; pinyin: Jiān-7; third generation export version J-7; NATO reporting name: Fishcan) is a Chinese fighter aircraft. It is a license-built version...
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Dassault Rafale (redirect from Rafale jet)
Infrared search and track (IRST) system Aviation portal Fourth-generation jet fighter Aircraft of comparable role, configuration, and era Shenyang J-15...
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Saab JAS 39 Gripen (redirect from Gripen fighters)
Link 16 tactical datalink Aviation portal Flygsystem 2020 Fourth-generation jet fighter Aircraft of comparable role, configuration, and era CAC/PAC JF-17...
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AIDC F-CK-1 Ching-kuo (redirect from Indigenous Defense Fighter)
Fighting Falcon jet fighters following diplomatic pressure from China. Taiwan therefore decided to develop an advanced indigenous jet fighter. The Aerospace...
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Chengdu J-20 (redirect from J20 stealth fighter jet)
(EOTS) EORD-31 infrared search and track Aviation portal Fifth-generation jet fighter J-XX Aircraft of comparable role, configuration, and era Lockheed...
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F/A-XX program (category Sixth-generation jet fighters)
next-generation tactical fighter with supercruise ability. There is significant disagreement over the Air Force's claims that adaptive-cycle jet engine...
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Dassault Mirage 2000 (category Fourth-generation jet fighters)
delta wing, fourth-generation jet fighter manufactured by Dassault Aviation. It was designed in the late 1970s as a lightweight fighter to replace the Mirage...
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BAE Systems Tempest (redirect from Tempest (experimental fighter))
hardware and software would start later. The Tempest will be a sixth-generation jet fighter incorporating several new technologies including deep learning AI...
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Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-21 (redirect from Type 77 Fighter Aircraft)
Микоян и Гуревич МиГ-21; NATO reporting name: Fishbed) is a supersonic jet fighter and interceptor aircraft, designed by the Mikoyan-Gurevich Design Bureau...
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fighter or lightweight fighter is a fighter aircraft towards the low end of the practical range of weight, cost, and complexity over which fighters are...
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Eurofighter Typhoon (redirect from Typhoon (jet))
Pod Aviation portal Timeline of the Eurofighter Typhoon Fourth-generation jet fighter Related development British Aerospace EAP Related lists List of...
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Sukhoi Su-35 (redirect from Su-35 (fighter))
of the Su-27 air-defence fighter. They are single-seat, twin-engine, supermaneuverable, 4.5 generation air superiority fighters, designed by the Sukhoi...
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Shenyang J-15 (category Fourth-generation jet fighters)
Flanker-K) is a Chinese all-weather, twin-engine, carrier-based 4.5 generation multirole fighter aircraft developed by the Shenyang Aircraft Corporation (SAC)...
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aircraft like the Hawker Siddeley Gnat. As the early jet-trainers became obsolete then further generations have appeared, the British using the single-engine...
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CAC/PAC JF-17 Thunder (redirect from Fighter China-1)
PAF officials have described the JF-17 Block 3 as a "fourth generation plus" fighter jet. The first PAC-produced JF-17 Block 3 aircraft are expected to...
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Chengdu Aircraft Corporation (section Business Jet)
produces the Chengdu J-10 light-weight multi-role fighter and Chengdu J-20 fifth-generation jet fighter, that are considered to be two of the most advanced...
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