What is the purpose of a fighter aircraft?

Answer 1

A fighter aircraft is a military aircraft designed primarily for air-to-air combat against other aircraft, as opposed to bombers and attack aircraft, whose main mission is to attack ground targets. The hallmarks of a fighter are its speed, maneuverability, and small size relative to other combat aircraft.

Many fighters have secondary ground-attack capabilities, and some are designed as dual-purpose fighter-bombers. Often, aircraft that do not fulfill the standard definition are called fighters. This may be for political or national security reasons, for advertising purposes or other reasons.

A fighter's main purpose is to establish air superiority over a battlefield. Since World War I, achieving and maintaining air superiority has been essential for victory in conventional warfare. The success or failure of a belligerent's efforts to gain air supremacy hinges on several factors including the skill of its pilots, the tactical soundness of its doctrine for deploying its fighters and the numbers and performance of those fighters. Because of the importance of air superiority, since the dawn of aerial combat armed forces have constantly competed to develop technologically superior fighters and to deploy these fighters in greater numbers, and fielding a viable fighter fleet consumes a substantial proportion of the defense budgets of modern armed forces.

Answer 2

To shoot down enemy fighter aircraft, to stop enemy bomber planes, and to escort friendly bomber aircraft. The Battle of Britain was won when the Royal Air Force defeated the German Air Force and let Germany know that any invasion of England would be stopped with a massive loss of German life. US fighter planes shot down German fighter planes and US and English planes bombed Germany. US planes shot down Japanese planes, and US planes sank Japanese ships and bombed Japan.

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fighter aircraft were also used in the ground attack role, to bomb and strafe smaller, quickly moving targets, such as troops, tanks, trucks,and trains.

Answer 3

The function of a fighter is to attack other military objects and to protect from its own military. escort fighters are fighters designed to fallow behind bomber aircraft, and shoot and destroy any enemy fighters, rockets, and AA guns (Anti-Aircraft guns). attack fighters are purposely made slow, and have heavier arms e.g. if the fighter has six 50 caliber machine guns and 3 1500 pound bombs, it would change to be an attack Fighter and re-armed with four 37mm cannons and three 1000 pound bombs and more rockets. Fighters are normally just referring to the rally fast, smaller, more agile aircraft of the airforce.