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[Liljagare]

I find modern airfighters to be a real marvel, and how they perform in the air, is really a thing to behold.

What are some of your favourites?

Naturarly, being a silly Swede, I really do love what our country has managed to put out there, all tailored towards one enemy in mind.

It is just nuts how you can get a airframe to perform nowadays, but really, the most interestings ones are before the G2-G3 fighters imho, mainly because on the limits on the eras onboard computing power. STOL/Usage of regular roads is a common theme in all the Swedish airframes, land, turnaround with a new pilot in the shortest possible time, make 1 airplane behave like 10, use all links available to coordinate with landed and airborne frames.

J-29 Tunnan (The Barrel) first flew in 1949.



The Draken (Dragon), first flew in 1955. Superstall/Cobra manouver.





The Viggen (Thunderbolt), I still think this could have had another upgrade for a G3.5, first flight in 1967.





The Gripen (Griffon), first flew in 1988. Gripen-E is a modern contender.



It had a famous crash, right smack in the middle of Stockholm in 1993.

 

[T8SC]

F14 Tomcat

F15 Strike Eagle

F16 Fighting Falcon

F117 Nighthawk

SU27 Flanker

MiG25 Foxbat

Harrier

 

[Liljagare]

Harrier

This one, I personally never liked, it killed alot of newbie pilots, but holy smokes:

"The second highest scoring fighter ace with 301 kills, Gerhard Barkhorn, crashed a prototype British Harrier jet fighter in 1965. When being helped from the wreckage he is said to have commented, "Drei hundert und zwei [302]!"​

Shot down nine times, wounded twice but died from a car accident in peace time. Somewhat ironic.

German Air Ace Gerhard Barkhorn – Second Highest Scoring Ace of All Times

Gerhard “Gerd” Barkhorn (Gerd being short form for Gerhard) was the second most successful fighter ace of all time after fellow Luftwaffe pilot E…

airpowerasia.com

 

[willothedog]

Typhoon. Get to see these regularly as BAE systems in Warton is not too far away.

 

[RJMacready73]

Years ago I was on a cruise ship in the med, it was real early in the morning and I was at the back pushing a pram and 2 fighter jets buzzed the back of the ship close enough for me to wave and see the pilot in the cockpit wave back at me, was surreal as fuck and the other few people up at that hour we all just looked at each other in disbelief, they must've been running sorties over to Libya at the time but dayam it was one of the coolest things I've seen, honestly could've hit the fuckers with a stone they where that close

 

[Hrk69]

 

[Gp1]

That golden canopy is gorgeous.

 

[AJUMP23]

The army workhorse.


Every pilot that uses one of these has to work with products I helped lead their development of.

 

[Trogdor1123]

The man is insane. We need more of that.

 

[eddie4]

 

[EverydayBeast]

Boeing C-17 Globemaster III​

The McDonnell Douglas/Boeing C-17 Globemaster III is a large military transport aircraft developed for the United States Air Force (USAF) between the 1980s to the early 1990s by McDonnell Douglas. The C-17 carries forward the name of two previous piston-engined military cargo aircraft, the Douglas C-74 Globemaster and the Douglas C-124 Globemaster II.

 

[jason10mm]

Jets are pretty and all but DAMN are the new generation prop attack aircraft SEXY BEASTS!

 

[Esca]

I'm a huge fan of the A 10 warthog. I know it's old and being retired but god damn you don't want to be in it's line of sight no matter what. The sound of that GAU 8 is demoralizing and stricking fear into the enemy.

 

[Reizo Ryuu]

 

[Pegasus Actual]

F16 Viper is the GOAT aesthetically. Su 27 is nice too. F15 is pretty cool and I was a Starscream mark back in the day.

It's gotten no love in the thread yet but the F18 has been growing on me. (I think I like the Super Hornet better because of the boxy air intakes)

 

[MMaRsu]

This kind of shit is insane to me

 

[winjer]

The F-15 is still my favorite, despite being half a century old.
Truly beautiful aircraft and the best kill record of all time.