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A fighter aircraft is a military aircraft designed primarily for airtoair combat with other aircraft, as opposed to a bomber, which is designed primarily to attack ground targets by dropping bombs. The hallmarks of a fighter are its small size, speed and maneuverability.Many fighters have secondary groundattack capabilities, and some are dualroled as fighterbombers. Consequently, the term quot;fighterquot; is sometimes extended colloquially to include dedicated groundattack aircraft.Fighters are the primary means by which armed forces gain air superiority over their opponents in battle. Since at least World War II, achieving and maintaining this air superiority has been a key component of victory in warfare, particularly conventional warfare as opposed to guerrilla warfare. The purchase, training and maintenance of a fighter fleet therefore consumes a substantial proportion of the defense budgets of modern armed forces.Although the term quot;fighterquot; technically refers to aircraft designed to shoot down other aircraft, such designs are often also useful as multirole fighterbombers, strike fighters, and sometimes lighter, fightersized tactical groundattack aircraft. For example, in World War II the US Navy would later favor fighters over dedicated dive bombers, and the P47 Thunderbolt would be favored for ground attack. The controversial F111 would be employed as a strike bomber as the fighter variant was abandoned. Bombers generally refer to longrange strategic or theater bombing roles. This blurring follows the use of fighters from their earliest days for quot;attackquot; or quot;strikequot; operations against enemy troops, field positions, vehicles, and facilities by means of strafing or dropping of bombs or incendiaries.Some of the most expensive fighters such as the F14 Tomcat, F22 Raptor and F15 Eagle were employed as allweather interceptors as well as air superiority combat aircraft, only developing airtoground roles late in their careers. Multirole fighterbombers such as the FA18 Hornet are often less expensive and tasked and in this case, given an FA designation with ground attack as part of a quot;highlow mixquot;, or in the case of the Super Hornet, replacing a range of specialized aircraft types.Fighters were developed in response to the fledgling use of aircraft and dirigibles in World War I for reconnaissance and groundattack roles. Early fighters were very small and lightly armed by later standards, and were mostly biplanes. As aerial warfare became increasingly important, so did control of the airspace. By World War II, fighters were predominantly allmetal monoplanes with wingmounted batteries of cannons or machine guns By the end of the war, turbojet engines were already beginning to replace piston engines as the means of propulsion, and increasingly sophisticated refinements to armament were already appearing.Modern jet fighters are predominantly powered by one or two turbofan engines, and are equipped with a radar as the primary method of target acquisition. Armament consists primarily of airtoair missiles from as few as two on some lightweight day fighters to as many as eight or twelve on air superiority fighters like the Sukhoi Su27 or Boeing F15 Eagle, with a cannon as backup armament typically between 20 and 30 mm in caliber; however, they can also employ airtosurface missiles, as well as guided and unguided bombs.List of fighters in service:Boeing FA18EF Super HornetBritish Aerospace Sea HarrierDassault Mirage 2000Dassault Mirage 2000N2000DDassault RafaleEurofighter TyphoonGrumman F14 TomcatMcDonnell Douglas F15 EagleGeneral Dynamics F16 Fighting FalconMcDonnell Douglas F15E Strike EagleMcDonnell Douglas FA18 HornetLockheed Martin F22 RaptorLockheed Martin F35 Lightning II
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