Since the start of military aviation, speed has been a defining factor in how fighters are built and used. Faster speeds ...

The race to build the fastest fighter jets on Earth has produced machines that barely seem compatible with human reflexes.

The Mikoyan MiG-31 "Foxhound" is widely recognized as the world's fastest fighter jet still in operational use.

Twenty years prior to 1969 most air forces had been flying piston-engined fighters essentially no different from those of World War II. In the following twenty years, top speeds almost quadrupled and ...

Military fighter jets are among the fastest aircraft in the history of aviation. But for some of these planes in the early 1990s, their incredible speed made them a target for enemy radar. One example ...

The MiG-21 currently serves in eighteen air forces worldwide, including two members of NATO (Romania and Croatia). Fishbeds flew in about forty other air forces (counting is difficult because ...

The United States has the world's most capable fighter jets thanks to the F-35, F-22, F-15EX, and many advanced force ...

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