Fighter Aircraft

Very few. The Nazis has a few of the ME262 aircraft (only 1430 were built in total) but surrendered in May 1945- and the US had a total of 66 or the AiraComets. The British had begun building the Glouster Meteor, but had so few that they were reserved for defense over Britain, and were not deployed over France or Germany. The MIG 15 was still in the future, and the Japanese never built a deployable jet fighter. An educated guess would be about 200 jet fighters total in 1945. That would soon change.

Currently, in 2013, the Royal Air Force has about 100 Eurofighter Typhoons ( I say 'about' as more are still being delivered monthly )

The US, Britain, Germany, France, Russia, Italy, Sweden, China, India, and possibly some other built original jet fighters. Canada, Japan and some others built fighters under licence.

The Supermarine Spitfire was useful because it was the main fighter plane used by Britain in world war 2, it helped win the battle of Britain and stopped Germany invading

Most modern fighter jets max out at about 2 or 2 and a half times the speed of sound.

Most aircraft however cruise at subsonic speeds (under the speed of sound) so that they don't need to use afterburners which guzzle down fuel.

That's changing however with the F-22 and latest Russian fighters being able to sustain supersonic flight (supercruise) without using afterburners.

There are many different fighter jets.- Of those currently flying, their weights range from the Northrop F-5 at around 16,000 pounds to some variants of the F-15 which roll out at over 44,000 pounds - almost 3 times the weight of the F-5 !

That would depend on the exact fighter . Some of the modern fighter aircraft can fly 50-60 thousand feet some will fly even higher . Most of the countries with new fighters will not reveal the ceiling they can fly at .

A good example is the Russian Su 35 or the MiG 31 may have a max flight as high as 80-100,000 ft but they don't want us to know about it .

Most of your fighter aircraft would stay in the 0-40,000 ft range where the air is thicker and control surfaces work better .

There are currently about 100 fighter jets in the Royal Air Force. They are Eurofighter Typhoons.

A British Rolls-Royce Merlin engine which is a liquid-cooled V-12 piston aero engine of 27-litres. This engine drives a 4 bladed propeller which delivers the thrust.

The most produced fighter in the world would be the Soviet Ilyushin Il-2 with 36.000+ aircraft produced.

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This is incorrect on at least two counts. The Il-2 was not a jet, nor was it a fighter.

But at least the nationality is correct.

There were over 18,000 MiG-15s built, followed by (estimates vary) 11-13,000 MiG-21s.

That's like asking if a shovel is better than a bandsaw, it all depends on what the pilot is asked to do. A helicopter can land just about anywhere, but it can't hunt down another aeroplane.

Mexico uses small numbers of F-5 Tigers.

Among other things, modern fighter pilots use G-suits, full face visor helmets, ejection seats and 'heads up' displays. -These are all inventions of the jet age.

Fighter jet with ease. Nearly all fighters are able to fly at mach speeds (faster than the speed of sound) and if a jumbo tried that it would break up. jumbo jets usually cruise at around mach 0.85 (567 mph, 913 km/h, 493 knots) which is well under the speed of sound (around 1000 km/h)

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At the moment probably the F22 or the Su T-50 Then the F35-II

Spitfires were made with many different versions of the Merlin and Griffon engines, and also many different propellers with 3, 4, 5 and 6 blades.

Most of the Mk 9 and it's variants (the most common Spitfires) Used the Rotol 4 blade propeller.

Absolutely.

It is more versatile, and better equipped for it's roles.

It is a ground attack and naval defence aircraft, whereas the F-35 is basically a glorified F-22 fighter with STOVL gear shoehorned in.

That, too, the F-35 is a STOVL aircraft.

(Short Take Off, Vertical landing.)

It still needs a runway.

The Harrier is a VSTOL aircraft

(Veritcal [or] Short Take Off [and] Landing)

It can operate from runways, but these are only necessary for getting large amounts of ordnance into the air

The Russians tend to be unwilling to give out figures like that.

The USAF has approx. 2132 fighter aircraft.

The US Navy has probably several hundred if not over a thousand, putting the amount of fighter jets in the US up to about 3000.

an F-14 tomcat can fly at a speed of mach 2.37 or 2,517 km/h ( 1 , 564 mph )

McDonnell Douglas originally did, now it is Boeing.

Yes, the final model Spitfire was about 30 mph faster than the last Mustang.

the avro arrow is the best jet!