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American Fighters III: Is the current fighter plane strategy sane?

The move to revamp the entire contingent of the US air combat forces is unprecedented in the recent history of the American military. During World War II and since, a widely diverse array of aircraft have served for all manner of air combat needs. During the last decades of the Cold War, development was competitive among a few military contractors for both fighter planes and their specializations.

American Fighter Jets II: The F-22 Raptor – Air Superiority, but is the niche too thin?

When the United States started developing stealth aircraft, they were seen as the logical next step in combat equipment. Planes that couldn’t be detected on radar were seen to have the advantage of being able to attack without being spotted, and this advantage was apparently deemed so great that the other characteristics of air fighter superiority seemed to be abandoned – those of speed, agility, the ability to out-turn an opponent, and to duel in close-up dogfighting. In fact, the notion of what constituted “air superiority” itself was altered in the US view.

US Stealth Fighters Fire Warning Flares at Russian Jets as They Nearly Collide Over Syria

(ZHE) — On Saturday, the Russian Defense Ministry reported an “Incident” had taken place involving USAF F-22 jets over Syria, which according to the Russians, “actively prevented the Russian pair of Su-25 attack aircraft from carrying out a combat mission to destroy the Daesh stronghold in the suburbs of the city of Mayadin in