Evolution Of American Fighter Aircraft (1942-2022)

From World War II through the Cold War and up until the present day, this is the story of how America's greatest fighter jets became more lethal, faster, more badass.

[ljessecusterl]

The Tomcat was not initially envisioned as a multirole aircraft. Its initial design precept was strictly as a Fleet Defense Interceptor, bolting out to a spot far from the fleet as quickly as possible and using the AWG-9 and AIM-54 Phoenix missiles to engage at extreme range to stop bombers and attack aircraft from engaging carrier groups. It was only used in a ground attack role during and after Desert Storm/Shield when there wasn't really any threat to the fleet. And we didn't get the ST-21 follow-on (which would've had a multirole AST-21 variant) because Boeing snowed the DOD into thinking the Super Hornet was just an upgrade from the legacy F/A-18s instead of an entirely new aircraft that just looked a lot like the legacy Hornet.

[krystalstarrett]

As a USAF areo repair veteran, I thank you for nice videos, now I am retired and still have JP 4 and mil 5606 (hydraulic fluid) running in my blood.

[kellywilson]

The legacy f-18's served from 1983 until 2021 in the US, They replaced the f-14, f-4, a-7 aircraft over time . I was in the first f-18 hornet squadron on the east coast VFA-131 Wildcats NAS Cecil Field fla. The Blue Angels took delivery of the first f-18's in 1986 VFA-106 same base .

[Forbidden_Word]

I can't believe how old our newest planes are.

[cristianvrincianu]

Wrong.. The Lockheed Martin F-35 lighting II has 3 variants, variant B has VTOL capabilities.

[peter-radiantpipes]

Your channel has the single most amount of mistakes of any channel that does military stuff. I stopped counting at some point. You’d think if this is what you do… you’d get better. I don’t mind a mistake here and there but they’re always riddled with them.

[j]

The background music sounds like a cat meowing in the next room

[MRxMADHATTER]

The profile picture that is shown for the F-106 is actually an F-102 Delta Dagger.

[lydiangold]

Many mistakes in the video. One mistake that I think no one pointed out is that the F-4 Phantom is still in active service in Turkey and Greece (maybe in South Korea and Iran as well).

[JackTorS]

At 07:53, I think you meant 1620 MPH as top speed for the F-16, not 2620 MPH. Although the conversion for 2454 KPH is approximately 1524 MPH, that also seems a little high for this plane.

[stevenwoeste]

There are some mistakes in the narration and in the text displayed for the jet fighter planes. Please review your video for accuracy.

[Sheer_Tazieh]

F15 still had the highest speed and highest range. I suggest watching documentary “how panic created the best fighter jet” about F15. Incredible and not so many people know about this but it’s amazing .

[johncoffelt]

The German jet fighters of WWII were never a threat to take over the air war, too few, too late and not enough quality pilots left to fly them effectively, yes they were a rude awaking to the Allied pilots, but never a real threat.

[ezraortinez]

Let's not forget about the F-38 Superfalcon

[hawkmoon]

Good video but you made a glaring mistake in your graphics: what you presented as the F-106 Delta Dart was an image of the earlier F-102 Delta Dagger. Note the 102's pointed tail and fairings alongside the exhaust.

[BernieGolgo]

F-111 is not pronounced F triple 111. It is pronounced F-One-Eleven. Also even though the F111 had the F for fighter designation, it was a close to the ground hugging bomber or electronic warfare role in the EF-111. Not a traditional fighter.

[shannonshepard]

I think you have the air speed for the F16 wrong. It is not faster than the F15.

[johneleprettre]

You forgot about one fighter jet though the f8 crusader, because it had 4 20 mm cannons and it could also carry missiles as well

[Darren]

I didn't even bother to watch. The thumbnail showing the F-16 as a Mach 3.5 aircraft told me all I needed to know about this channel.

[white-dragon]

F-111 is pronounced "F One Eleven", not "F Triple One".