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Mach 0.95Northrop Grumman B-2 Spirit
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Overview 📷 Photo: U.S. Air Force The B-2 Spirit is the most expensive aircraft ever built at $2.1 billion per unit—and arguably th…
Mach 0.95Northrop Grumman B-21 Raider
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Overview 📷 Photo: U.S. Air Force The B-21 Raider is America's newest stealth bomber and the most advanced aircraft ever built. Unv…
Mach 1.23Northrop T-38 Talon
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Overview 📷 Photo: Wikimedia Commons / US Air Force / Public Domain The Northrop T-38 Talon is the world's first and most-produced…
Northrop Tacit Blue
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The "whale" — Northrop's 1980s curved-surface stealth demonstrator that proved low observability could come from smooth shapes, no…
Northrop YF-17 Cobra
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The F-16's losing rival in the Lightweight Fighter program — but in losing, it became the F/A-18 Hornet and one of the most succes…
Mach 2.2Northrop YF-23 Black Widow II
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Overview 📷 Photo: U.S. Air Force / Wikimedia Commons (Public Domain) The Northrop YF-23 Black Widow II was one of the most advance…
Mach 2.2Panavia Tornado
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Overview 📷 Photo: Wikimedia Commons The Panavia Tornado was Europe's most important Cold War combat aircraft—a variable-sweep wing…
Mach 0.92Republic F-84F Thunderstreak
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Overview 📷 Photo: Wikimedia Commons / U.S. Air Force The Republic F-84F Thunderstreak is an American swept-wing turbojet-powered f…
Mach 2.08Republic F-105 Thunderchief
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Overview 📷 Photo: U.S. Air Force The F-105 Thunderchief, affectionately called the 'Thud,' bore the heaviest burden of the air war…
Republic XF-91 Thunderceptor
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The only U.S. fighter ever flown with reverse-taper wings and combined jet+rocket propulsion. Briefly held the title of first U.S.…
Republic XF-103 Thunderwarrior
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The cancelled Mach 3 interceptor with a combined turbojet-ramjet engine — Republic's most ambitious paper aircraft, killed in 1957…
Mach 1.25Rockwell B-1 Lancer
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Overview 📷 Photo: U.S. Air Force The B-1 Lancer, nicknamed 'The Bone' (B-One), is a supersonic variable-sweep wing strategic bombe…
Mach 2.1Saab 37 Viggen
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Quick answer: The Saab 37 Viggen was a Swedish single-engine combat-aircraft family designed for dispersed operations from short r…
Mach 2.0Saab J 35 Draken
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Saab J 35 Draken 📷 Photo: Wikimedia Commons The Saab 35 Draken (Dragon) was a Swedish fighter aircraft with a revolutionary double…
Mach 2.0Saab JAS 39 Gripen
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Overview 📷 Photo: Wikimedia Commons The Gripen is Sweden's lightweight, cost-effective multirole fighter designed to operate from…
Mach 1.6SEPECAT Jaguar
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Overview 📷 Photo: U.S. Department of Defense / Wikimedia Commons The SEPECAT Jaguar is a British-French supersonic jet attack airc…
Mach 1.8Shenyang FC-31 / J-35
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Overview 📷 Photo: Wikimedia Commons The Shenyang J-35, developed from the FC-31 Gyrfalcon technology demonstrator, is a Chinese si…
Mach 2.2Shenyang J-8 Finback
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Overview 📷 Photo: Wikimedia Commons / Public Domain The Shenyang J-8 (NATO reporting name: Finback) is a Chinese high-altitude int…
Mach 2.35Shenyang J-11
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Overview 📷 Photo: Wikimedia Commons / Public Domain The Shenyang J-11 is a Chinese fourth-generation twin-engine air superiority f…
Mach 2.25Shenyang J-15 Flying Shark
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Quick answer: The Shenyang J-15 “Flying Shark” is China’s first fixed-wing carrier-based fighter. It first flew on 31 August 2009…
Mach 2.0Shenyang J-16
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Overview 📷 Photo: Wikimedia Commons The Shenyang J-16 (NATO reporting name: Flanker-N), also known as "Qianlong" (Hidden Dragon),…
Mach 2.04Sukhoi Su-7 Fitter
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Overview 📷 Photo: Wikimedia Commons / Public Domain The Sukhoi Su-7 (NATO reporting name: Fitter-A) is a Soviet swept-wing, supers…
Mach 2.0Sukhoi Su-9 Fishpot
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Overview 📷 Photo: Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA) The Sukhoi Su-9 (NATO reporting name: Fishpot) was a single-engine, all-weather, mi…
Mach 2.2Sukhoi Su-11 Fishpot-C
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Overview 📷 Photo: Wikimedia Commons The Sukhoi Su-11 (NATO: Fishpot-C) was an improved version of the Su-9 interceptor with a larg…