Today’s Best Fighter Planes

Since man has learned to maximized the use of airplanes in winning war; it has evolved to what it is now: a very mean fighting machines. Super powers are busy out-thinking and out-building each other to come out with a more faster, swifter and top-of-the-line planes. Below is a list of today’s most modern military aircraftbased on their over-all performance. Take note that is only my own opinion.

F/A-18E/F Super Hornet

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The U.S. made F/A-18E/F Super Hornet is a Mach 1.8+ combat-proven strike fighter with built-in versatility. It is an advance derivative of the F/A-18C/D Hornet. The aircraft’s dimension is as follows: length: 60.3 (18.5 meters), height: (4.87 meters) and wingspan (13.68 meters). The Super Hornet’s two crews can perform missions such as: day/night strikes with precision-guided weapons, maritime strike, reconnaissance and fighter escort. Its armament include: 1x 20 mm guns, rockets, missiles and bombs.

J-10

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The Jian-10 (J-10) from PROC is a Mach 1.85 multi-purpose fighter aircraft built for both air-to-air and air-to-ground missions. It comes in two variant; a two-seater trainer plane and the single crew attack aircraft. The aircraft is 14.57 meters long, a height of 4.78 m and a wingspan of 8.78 m. It is equipped with locally made fire-control radar that has a mechanically planar array antenna. The aircraft has 11 external stores stations for weapon carriage, three under each wing and five under the fuselage. J-10 has in its arsenal a fixed 23 mm. cannon, short-range infrared air-to-air missiles, medium-range radar-guided air-to-air missiles, anti-ship missiles among others.

F-16/E Block 60

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The latest and the most advanced Fighting Falcons F-16s are the Block 60 versions. These aircrafts have advance features that include:  bigger fuel and payload capacity, color cockpit displays with superior pilot/vehicle interfaces and better avionics and sensors. The aircraft is also equipped with various navigation systems that include: tactical air navigation (TACAN), distance measuring equipment (DME) and enhanced instrument landing system. Among its weapons and arsenal include: six barrel 20mm Gatling gun, medium range missiles and during close battles it can deploy AIM-9X, Python 4 and Python 5. These aircrafts are also fitted with the latest  APG-80 Active Electronic Scanning Array (AESA) radar system.