/r/FighterJets
A community for fighter jet enthusiasts, to discuss and research armed, high-performance, fixed-wing combat aircraft, generally small to medium sized, with one or two crewmembers and one or two turbojet or turboprop engines (fighter, attack, CAS, COIN, etc.) and related content, including their armament, tactics, equipment, and units.
A community for fighter jet enthusiasts, to discuss and research armed, high-performance, fixed-wing combat aircraft, generally small to medium sized, with one or two crewmembers and one or two turbojet or turboprop engines (fighter, attack, CAS, COIN, etc.) and related content, including their armament, tactics, equipment, and units.
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5. Stay on topic This community is for researching and discussing fighter jets and other related content, including armament, tactics, equipment, units, etc. Off-topic content includes, but is not limited to, the following: fictional aircraft, toy/model/radio-controlled aircraft, video game/AI or similar captures/renders. Please read the complete rules and guidelines in the wiki for more details.
6: No Identification Of Unknown Aircraft. Please keep the identification of unknown aircraft to other, specifically made for this purpose, subreddits such as /r/aircraftrecognition, /r/namethatplane, /r/planeidentification, /r/whatisthisplane, /r/whatplaneisthis. This also includes "challenges" regarding the identification of aircraft.
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Saw this beauty overhead while playing tennis
22:45 UTC
Another video of the blue angels flying.
same pass as my other posts just shorter and clearer
21:00 UTC
Blue angels flying around in wichita (my video)
after they went by, a couple car alarms went off lol. sorry for the bad quality
20:56 UTC
An F-35A Lightning II over Utah, August 15, 2024.
15:28 UTC
PIDS+ original sensor configuration
15:15 UTC
Brazilian AF's F-5EM
13:19 UTC
Air demonstration
12:29 UTC
Boeings new F-15Qa
Was a really impressive demo this plane has given at RIAT this year, the sound is also just WOW! Have some pics with the full armed bird that i will post later.
07:59 UTC
F-18 High Speed Pass
20:41 UTC
What's your favorite fighter from each generation?
20:14 UTC
I played F-16 Falcon in the 90’s, was really into fighter jets… why did I never hear it referred to as the Viper?
I recently got back into sims and jets, and I was wondering why people keep calling the F-16 “viper”. In the 90’s I would read all about jets and was all over the F-16 Falcon game/sim and its 300 page manual, and I don’t recall at all the name “viper”. I read up on it and saw that apparently it was called “viper” pretty much from the start. Why would I be so clueless about the nickname, did it only become common later on?
17:38 UTC
Ladies and gentlemen… can anyone tell me whether these are F-15As or Cs? Photo apparently of the 58th TFS in 1993.
Any help would be much appreciated. Also, if possible, were As converted into Cs? Or given the updates and given another name?
Given the level of detail, I hope this doesn’t fall foul of ‘unknown aircraft’ question ban in the rules.
Thanks again!
16:53 UTC
Is that a soldered copper line with fittings on this Su-34?
I'm a plumber so I noticed it right away. I would of assumed that compression, or other unique fittings would be used on a fighter aircraft. Is this common place, or is this the usual Russian shenanigans? Will link video in comments, Timestamp on video: 6:25.
15:25 UTC
How does the F-14 compare to the F-18 as an aircraft carrier's main fighter? Were there any areas the F-14 would be preferred? Photo shows F-14 Silhouette tied down on the deck of an aircraft carrier.
14:47 UTC
A U.S. Air Force F-16 Fighting Falcon assigned to the 35th Fighter Squadron taxis back after a training mission during Ulchi Freedom Shield 24 at Kunsan Air Base, Republic of Korea, Aug. 19, 2024.
12:08 UTC
Finnish Air force aerobatic team "Midnight Hawks"
08:24 UTC
KF-21 Boramae fires AIM-2000(IRIS-T) air-to-air missile
koreans and Indonesians cooked hard on this one... fyi Boramae means "Young Hawk" or "Fighting Hawk " in Korean
05:29 UTC
thoughts on this, Chengdu J-20 Mighty Dragon
02:51 UTC
J-20 figthter in Changchun Airshow 2023
23:36 UTC
A4-AR 🇦🇷 With 2 Sidewinder and central tank
19:48 UTC
Željava (Croatia)
Tito's megalomaniacal idia Mountain mig 21 on of the coolest military airport ever
16:43 UTC
Mistubishi F-2A taking off
15:58 UTC
F-15 escorting a B-2 Bomber
14:30 UTC
F-35A Lightning IIs from RAAF Base Tindal’s No. 75 Squadron begin Exercise Red Flag-Alaska 24-3 at Eielson Air Force Base
11:46 UTC
About drone fighter aircraft
Simple question. Would performance of fighter aircraft be able to be increased significantly if no considerations were necessary for a human pilot? Purely technical with all moral or ethical matters set aside.
02:50 UTC