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What is a nth Generation fighter?
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December 14th 03, 09:46 PM
Howard Austin
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(BUFDRVR) wrote in message ...
Could anyone tell me examples of 1st..5th? generation fighters and
other planes and what seperates them? (Apart from time)
Good question, and one I asked an intel officer shortly after becoming mission
qualified in the BUFF. Here's the way he layed it out:
1st Generation (early jet fighter) - MiG-15,17,19 or F-84, F-86
(snip)
Surely the first generation of jet fighters would have been the Lockheed
P-80, Gloster Meteor, Me. 263 and others of the same vintage.
Howard Austin
Howard Austin