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The second generation of fighter planes were jet fighters with no missiles or complicated avionics.
Most modern fighter jets can carry up to 12 bombs or missiles.
Who is to say what is the "world's best fighter plane" - there are many criteria to judge this by.
The possessive form of 'the wingspan of the fighter plane' is the fighter plane's wingspan.
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The Hurricane fighter of WW2 was manned by 1 crew.
Stealth fighters. Fighters capable of locking onto an enemy, and firing long range missiles on them, before the enemy even knows you're there.
Form of a fighter plane is purely dictacted by function.
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0 it was a fighter plane
All current missiles are electrically triggered in a sequence to 'spool up' as they release from the aircraft.
The Nimrod is an maritime patrol plane that is more of a bomber plane with heat seeking Sidewinder air-to-air missiles for self defense instead of a actual fighter plane. B-52's with 50 caliber machine guns shot down North Vietnamese MIG fighters in 1972, that doesn't make the B-52 bomber (with machine guns) a fighter plane. The world's biggest fighter plane is probably the F-14 Tomcat flown only by Iran (put in to storage in Arizona by the USA) or the F/A-18E/F Super Hornet flown by the US Navy and possibly other countries.