Jet Fighter

The Mikoyan MiG-29 (Fulcrum) is a 4th-generation Soviet jet fighter aircraft. Developed by the Mikoyan design bureauin the 1970s, it entered service with the Soviet Air Force in 1983. Click on the images below to see a larger view Polish Mikoyan Mig-29 by Henrik "The Viper", on Flickr MIG 29 Fulcrum Nosecone German Air Force MIG 29 MIG 29... 

The McDonnell Douglas F/A-18 Hornet was designed to attack ground targets and to perform dogfighting maneuvers. The Hornet is used by several military departments in the US. The United States Navy uses them as well as the Marine Corps. Several other countries also possess large numbers of these lethal aircraft. Click on the images below to see a larger... 

The Republic Aviation Corporation’s F-84 ThunderJet was one of the first air superiority fighters, powered by a jet engine, in the United States Air Force (AF) arsenal. It was also one of the most intriguing experimental platforms ever designed. Between 1952 and the fall of ’57, no less than two hundred tests of various systems involving... 

Project Tom-Tom was originated by the United States Air Force’s Strategic Air Command as a way to provide its long range heavy bomber fleets with a fighter umbrella by towing them on semi-fixed wing links. The concept of the MX-1018, the programs official call-sign, was devised from the FICO (Fighter Conveyor) system. A program initiated by the... 

‘Man on a Missile’, that’s how many Starfighter pilots refer to their experience flying one of the most intriguing aircraft ever developed: the Lockheed F-104. From its conception, the Starfighter was one of the most revolutionizing airplanes in the history of aviation. Its streamlined, powerful engines and advanced electronic and... 

The swift focus of the Allied bomber campaign against the German’s oil industry had immediate and far-reaching effects, compared with the 175,000 tons of aviation fuel it produced in April 1944. In June of that same year, German oil production fell to just over 55,000 tons, less than a third of the previous years output. Unless something was done,... 

Major Doug Soifer began to trim out the Astro-Inertial Navigation System control display while at the same time he adjusted the Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) displays. It was the fifth hour of a very long, non-stop flight from the Kadena Air Force Base, located on the strategically important Island of Okinawa, to one of the more congestive areas of... 

If compared to the rest of it’s South American counterparts, Venezuela enjoyed a relative stable form of government for much of the 1970s and 80s. As with the rest of the country’s military arms, the Fuerza Aerea Venezolana (FAV) suffered from a prolong period of budgetary restrictions and limitations that started in the mid 70s and lasted... 

There are few fighters that capture the imagination in the same way that the F-15 Eagle does. Almost all the pilots who flew the Eagles in peace and in war, acknowledge that it was a completely ‘different beast’. Its handling capability and its sheer power will be difficult to duplicate in a platform-era base. To resume, the F-15 will most... 

In the past few years, The People’s Republic of China’s growing military capability has attracted a great deal of interest, but major details regarding China’s near-future military strength have been hard to come by. At this moment, China is spending massive amounts of financial resources in order to improve its overall military capability....