fighter
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- "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. Although helicopters are sometimes used in similar roles, the term fighter is at present applied only to fixed-wing 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 considered essential for victory in conventional warfare. The success or failure of a belligerent´s efforts to gain air superiority 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 early days 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." - (en.wikipedia.org 08.09.2019)
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Fotoserie MiG-29 von OTL d.R. Dr. Stefan Petersen
Die friedliche Revolution...
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Schafft mehr Tanks
Propagandaplakat aus der Zeit...
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Hans Otte: "Erinnerungen aus meiner Fliegerzeit" - 1918
Album im Querformat mit XX...
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Image: Museum Wolmirstedt - RR-F -
Abfangjagdflugzeug MiG-17PF (NVA-Kennung 615), NVA, DDR 1959-1971
Die MiG-17 war eine...
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Propaganga-Heft "ME 109"
96seitiges, kartoniertes...
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Image: Haller ZeitRäume - CC BY-NC-SA
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