I've been itching to watch some good air combat movies, but outside of the Top Gun movies it's pretty slim pickings and bad reviews. I really liked R2B (basically Korean Top Gun) but have been hard pressed to find anything else of quality. What recommendations do you all have?

I'm pretty stupid, so I'm not sure if this is F or D. How do you recognize Super hornets from just Hornets?

I know this is stupid question

The latest version of Typhoon has a small radar, J16/J15T's ground attack capability is not as good as F15EX, and its avionics is about 2015 /2016technology, while F15EX is the latest avionics.The only shortcoming is that the range of AIM120D is not as good as that of Meteor and Pl15

It's an amazing invisible missile launch platform, but how would it fare as a fighter jet?

Hopefully the title is self explanatory, but basically how far do the pilots have to fly from their hangar to reach their AO?

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Last Wednesday (27th November), over Rust. My first time seeing an Eurofighter Typhoon.

Sorry for the low quality photo, but I had to be very fast to take the photo with my smartphone.

Yes, Vought actually proposed making a knock-off MiG-21 for training US Navy fighter pilots; they even thought of making aggressor knockoff MiG-23s and 29s.

I dont wanna talk about amount of aircraft because obviously the f22 wins there i mean its nearly retired after all

But personally i think the f22 would win what do you guys think?

I'm just wondering because it's kind of an old design, and it's been around for a few decades now. We know that it has nowhere near the stealth capabilities of the F-22 or F-35, but it was never really intended to be a stealth fighter anyway. If we just look at it as a versatile, multi-role fighter, is it still one of the best out there?

Is its lack of stealth capabilities likely to make it obsolete in terms of modern combat aviation? And how does it compare to its American 4th gen contemporaries?

I've been reading the combat radius of many aircraft and there is one thing that is confusing me . In this case , let's take the F16 , it's combat radius is 340 miles without drop tanks. We assume an ideal scenario where the f16 successfully reaches its target . Now does the 340 miles combat radius mean the distance between the target only or the total distance that the f16 traveled from target and then returning to it's homebase .? I asked AI and it said that the 340 miles combat radius is only measured for the target or as you can say , "A one way measurement" , does that mean the f16 making it 340 miles to it's target and then 340 miles again back to homebase makes it total of 680 miles or iam I wrong here .? Without drop tanks ofc

I'm working on some space planes for my world building project, and when I look at current day fighters for reference, they all seam to look similar in design, especially with the tail. What are the reasons for this occurrence, and would there be any reason to go against the current convention?

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Title should be pretty self explanatory, I'm out of stuff to read and I'd like to know more about the wide widow and wet pigeon. So any recommendations regarding literature about the ATF program is welcome.

what should a fighter jet design have in mind so that it can reliably operate in snowy/winter/freezing conditions?