The Grumman F-14 Tomcat was a two-seat, twin-engine, variable-geometry carrier fighter built for one very specific job: to hold off, hundreds of kilometres from the carrier, the Soviet bombers that threatened to swamp an entire naval force…
The General Dynamics F-16 Fighting Falcon is a single-engine, fourth-generation multirole fighter designed by General Dynamics and built by Lockheed Martin ever since the former sold its aircraft business in 1993. Its official maiden…
The Sukhoi Su-27, given the NATO reporting name "Flanker", is the twin-engine heavy fighter with which the Soviet Union set out to answer, aircraft for aircraft, the American generation led by the F-15 Eagle and the F-14 Tomcat. Conceived…
The MiG-29 is the light air-superiority fighter with which the Soviet Union answered America's fourth generation. Christened "Fulcrum" by NATO, its low-speed agility and famous cobra manoeuvre made it the airshow star of the late Cold…
The McDonnell Douglas F/A-18 Hornet is a carrier-capable, supersonic, twin-engined, all-weather combat aircraft conceived as both a fighter and a ground-attack machine, hence the dual F/A designation. It was designed by McDonnell Douglas…