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To protect the bombers (and sometimes to protect reconnaissance aircraft). Fighters fight the bomber's escorts; escorts defend the bombers. Fighters don't intentionally fight try to fight the escorts...it's just that they have to fight their way thru them in order to reach (kill) the bombers.
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∙ 14y ago
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∙ 14y agoThey are not intended as targets. They are national markings to identify what country a fighter plane belongs to, although many of them looked like targets, and they may have been used as such by enemy fighter planes in close combat.
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kinds of fighter planes
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no
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25,000
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