fighter bomber

The Germans designed plenty of jet aircraft but which of them were actually good?

This topic is for discussion of the expected announcement of a contract award for the US Navy F/A-XX and will be renamed once the chosen contractor is Northrop Grumman named.

The twin-boom Caproni Ca.150 was an attack-fighter ordered in 1936 but subsequently cancelled. The current Caproni auction at Mallams has enabled the emergence of some really interesting material, such as these Ca.150 documents which show two different design iterations (Ca.150 and Ca.150/2)...

I was thinking what if there was a stealth fighter bomber to replace the fb-111.

Messerschmitt Me 262 Development & Politics by Dan Sharp There are many myths surrounding the development of the Messerschmitt Me 262 jet fighter. Its unparalleled performance is beyond doubt; easily able to outpace its opponents and possessing the firepower to shred them in seconds. Yet...

A bit of a Brain sneeze prompted by reading the Vanguard book on the Su25 in which the author noted thst the Soviet Union found thst the Mig 17 performed better in the ground attack role than the later Mig and Sukhoi designs that replaced them. The Canberra and Hunter replacement programmes for...

One of the things that always puzzled me in the 70s was how the West German Air Force replaced its NATO light fighter bomber competition winning Fiat G91 with the Dornier Dassault Breguet Alpha Jet. The Germans had the money to buy a raft of different planes for this role ranging from Jaguars...

Request for a pure research machine April '49. May '50 ordered prototypes. ER.100 Contract placed October ER.103 Gannet Superpriority delayed work. construction summer 1952. First flight 28 Oct 1955. Assuming a supersonic fighter is produced based on this research.

April 1950 Westland proposes the W.37 Fighter-Striker to N.9/47 for a fighter and NR/A.19 for a single seat strike aircraft. Assuming this was chosen several benefits result:- 1. Either a) the use of a single large jet such as Gyron or Olympus is chosen as the powerplant b) a reheated...

Hello The question is the title of the topic itself. It is known that at first Bf 109 T and Ju 87 C would be used, but which would be used in the 1944 and 45, with better Allied counterparts?

In volume 8 of “Gente dell’Aria” by Giorgio Evangelisti published in 2012, there is a description of an italian trimotor called Caproni CDR-10, equipped with three Isotta Fraschini “Delta” RC.41. CDR stands for Caproni-De Bernardi-Rossi. The latter was the engineer Lelio Rossi, former Technical...

I've caught papacavy's "What If" disease, but this is purely for interest rather than literary purposes. As we all know, the Fairey Battle was an airplane which, once tested in combat, did not imbue its crews with any confidence that they would come home from attacking defended targets. Let's...

How might Sidewinder armed F-106 "Six Shooters" (F-106s equipped with bubble canopies and Vulcan cannons) have performed during the Vietnam War? The F-106 had maneuverability on par with the F-4 Phantom II, being better in some situations and worse in others. It also carried an IRST system...

Hi, here is a comparison between BF.161-V2 and BF.162-V2.

From -Air enthusiast Nº55 -Le Fanatique de l'Aviation -Airplane Five View Album B.C.F.Klein publications -Warplanes of the Second World War-Volume Four -Naval Fighters-Sixty.Five Post-1

You're kidding! I've never seen this before! (or maybe I'm getting old?). I would LOVE to see pics of this, really...

Hi everybody I am searching drawings of the following Me-262 variants. They are very rare ! Panzerflugzeug 1 and 2 armed with four WGR.21 and four MK-108 ? weight 7300kg ? Me-262 A-2a/R2 ? heavy armored "Sturmjäger" ? Me-262 A-3a ground-attack version Me-262...

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Outwardly canted fins, internal weapons. Story and photos here: http://air-attack.com/news/article/3606/Boeing-unveils-F-15-Silent-Eagle-with-fifth-generation-features.html

#784 was trialled with a radome and variant of the B-1B's radar system. Has any other information on this project, or any images of the test configuration, ever turned up? This is said to be the forerunner of the Raptor's radar mounting.