Fighter

Fighter aircraft are military aircraft designed to attack other planes in the air. Unlike bombers, designed to attack targets on the surface. Fighter aircraft are relatively small, fast, and agile. Fighter aircraft originally developed in World War I to face the bomber planes and hot-air balloon that began commonly used for ground attack and reconnaissance. The first fighter aircraft originally a double-wing wooden fed light machine gun. In World War II, more fighter planes made of metal, single-winged, and use machine guns that are embedded in the wings. After World War II, began to replace the turbojet engine piston engines, and missiles began to be used to replace the machine gun as primary weapon.
The classification was made based on the generation fighter aircraft. Use of this generation was originally used in Russian defense officials, who called the F-22 Raptor fighter aircraft the United States as a "fifth generation".
Fighter aircraft are used for war planes in the air. Generally, combat aircraft-shaped trim, can move swiftly, to bring canon (machine gun) as well as missiles and bombs, high-speed, equipped with avionics equipment for more than civilian aircraft / passengers such as radar that can detect opponents within the target distance and lock the opponent. Moreover, equipped with radar equipment humbug and vandals, until capable of "stealth" (stealth).

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