air-superiority fighter

It is a 21st century Russian air-superiority fighter, and the most advanced of its time.

Three 1 rphoon air-superiority fighters had escorted them from Listoel.

It was designed to be a single-seat air-superiority fighter and ground-attack aircraft.

The Luftwaffe flew the Me 262 in combat as an air-superiority fighter.

Aside from some training birds located elsewhere, this was the only two-seat version of the Air Force's prime air-superiority fighter.

The F/A-22 is an air-superiority fighter with improved capability over current Air Force aircraft.

Fifty feet away was a MiG-29 Fulcrum-N, the new naval variant of the Russian air-superiority fighter.

Thompson has also said that a long-range maritime strike aircraft may cause the United States more trouble than a shorter range air-superiority fighter like the F-22.

Two Typhoon air-superiority fighters arrowed in from the north, silver-grey needles with wings retracted, using the airship as a radar shield.

The pod was the USAF's first wide-field, forward-looking infrared navigation system for air-superiority fighters.

Once perfected, the XF- 34A DrearnStar fighter would be the nation's new air-superiority fighter.

The McDonnell Douglas F-15 Eagle was also an interceptor with enhanced agility, but did not carry the Phoenix in preference to the role of an air-superiority fighter.

Unlike interceptors of the previous eras, most fourth-generation air-superiority fighters were designed to be agile dogfighters (although the Mikoyan MiG-31 and Panavia Tornado ADV are notable exceptions).

The Dassault Mirage F1 is a French air-superiority fighter and attack aircraft designed and built by Dassault Aviation as a successor of the Mirage III family.

Specialized interceptor version of the F-104G for the Japanese ASDF, built under license by Mitsubishi for the air-superiority fighter role, armed with cannon and four Sidewinders; no strike capability.

The Iraqis considered ground attack to be the most important and put their best pilots into their French Mirage F-1s rather than Soviet air-superiority fighters and interceptors such as the MiG-25 and MiG-29.

In 1974, the PLAAF formally proposed the development of a replacement for the Shenyang J-6 for the 1980s by a light-weight air-superiority fighter aircraft capable of achieving speeds of up to mach 2.0.

Within seconds they had approached to within ten miles of the North Korean air-superiority fighters and had them on their FLIR, which unlike radar was a passive system that would not give them away to the MiGs' threat identification radars.

Fourier made mental notes as they made their fast observation pass. . . . The Soviet formation had broken inta two separate cells; the lower cell consisted of four Sukhoi-27 Flanker air-superiority fighters and two supersonic Tupolev-26 Backfire bombers.

They had been guided by two E-3B Sentry aircraft, and protected by three squadrons of F-15C EAGLE air-superiority fighters in the event some Chinese fighters appeared again to die, but there had been little such fighter activity in the past thirty-six hours.

In November, 1999, NAS Lemoore received its first F/A-18 E/F Super Hornets, which replaced the F-14 Tomcat in fleet service as an air-superiority fighter and has assumed, in a different configuration, the role of older F/A-18 Strike Fighters.