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Best Fighter Jets of All time part I

F117 Stealth Fighter Year 1983

The F-117A Nighthawk Stealth Fighter was a single seat, dual engine aircraft developed byLockheedMartin.This extremely weird looking jet was designed at the height of the cold war with an aim to fly undetected. IFor being the first of its kind and packing a knockout punch in terms of stealth, this marvel of man deserves to be a part of the top ten fighter aircraft ever.

DR 1 Fokker Triplane Year 1917. This was unheard of in a time where pilots would use wing-mounted machine guns and even hand held pistols. This little red devil was much smaller than many of its adversaries but where it lost in weight, it made up for in the one thing that ensures survivability in air combat, and that is agility. This was the very plane that the made "The Red Baron" (Manfred von Richthofen) one of the most feared fighter ace of his time.

Harrier Jump Jet (AV-8B Harrier II) Year 1985

This aircraft is a British brain child and over the years has seen much active combat on at least four continents. While the Harrier is one of the most flexible aircraft ever made, the level of understanding and skill needed to pilot it is considerable. This was the first aircraft to effectively use thrust vectoring, a capability through which the exhaust nozzles tilt and vector the thrust.

F 86 Sabre Year 1949 and MIG -15

The seventh spot is a tie between the U-Mig-15 and the infamous F86 sabre. These two jets created some of the greatest air battles of our time in the Korean War. The Mig was a very heavily armed fighter and much more robust compared to the Sabre. Veteran American pilots would be baffled by the fact that their bullets would hit this agile aircraft and it wouldn't even flinch, on the other hand, one hit from its 37mm cannon would render a Sabre inactive.

Messerschmidt ME109 Year 1937

The trait which made it stand out though, was its monumental combat record. The most sought after airplane of its time, the ME-109 was also one of the most feared. They were in production right up till the fall of Normandy and a staggering 34,000 aircraft were produced. The ME 109 became the backbone of the Luftwaffe fighter force in World War II and without doubt was one of the most successful fighter aircraft of the war.

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