Flying fighting machines

Flying fighting machines

By noah eisen

Airplanes

IAI Nesher

Is an Israeli produced airplane that was a modification of the mirage III it was sold to Argentina and used in the Falkland islands war and 6 day

F-22 Raptor

One of the fastest airplanes in the world, it can reach mach 2 it is a 3rd generation plane , it can carry two AIM-9 side winders 2 AIM-120 & 2 JDAM or it could carry 2 fuel tanks plus 4 missiles or 4 fuel tanks and 8 missiles

P51D Mustang

It could reach 440 MPH It has six .50 Cal machine guns One of the most famous WWII plane fought jets

P 26 Pea Shooter

Was the first fully metal monoplane in the USAF

Called like that because of its gun It was used from 1932 until 1941

A5M

Was the first monoplane It was the ancestor of the A6M Zero

IAI Heron 1

It is an Israeli plane It is a UAV can hold up to 250 Kg

IAI Kfir

It was made to replace the Nesher Can hold 5500Kg Sri Lanka, USA, Israel, Colombia and

Ecuador used it

U-2 Dragon Lady

Could fly at 21000 meters ( at 22000 meters your out of the countries airspace)

Famous for spying in the cold war until it was shot down with a

missile

F-35

Developed by lock heed martin It is really fast and could replace the

F-16, F-18, and the AV/8B harrier It can lift of vertically $35million

B2 Spirit

Made during the cold war it was made to drop nuclear bombs

Now used to drop JDAM and it is stealth

It costs $2.2 billion

Av 8B Harrier

It can lift of vertically but is hard to control

It is small It can like a helicopter and a F35 be

motionless in the sky but it takes a lot of effort of the pilot

It is relatively cheap $6.7 million

Helicopters

Apache longbow

It is one of the most advanced helicopters

It has a 30mm canon AGM hellfire antitank missiles, rocket louncher hydra 70, and for anti air aim9 sidewinder and aim92 stinger

Chinook

One of the only helicopters that is still used in warfare today because of the new combat zones where fast airplanes are better and it is used to carry troops orother things