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With the fifth generation slowly coming into service, attention turned to a replacement sixth generation. The requirements for such a fighter remain under debate. Fifth-generation abilities for battlefield survivability, air superiority and ground support are being enhanced and adapted to the future
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The Korean War of 1950–1953 forced a major reconsideration of aircraft design. Guns proved unsuitable at such high speeds, while the need for multirole capability in battlefield support was rediscovered. Interceptor-type aircraft emerging after the war used after-burning engines to give Mach 2
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Five generations are now commonly recognised, with the fifth representing the latest generation in service (as of 2018). Future types at an early stage of development are expected to have even further enhanced capabilities and have become known as a sixth generation. The rest of this article broadly
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had advanced to the point that a much smaller and more agile plane could now carry the necessary data systems. Sophisticated automation and human interfaces could greatly reduce crew workload. It was now possible to combine the C, fighter and ground support roles in a single, agile aircraft. Such a
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Following the mixed successes of the multirole generation, advanced technologies were being developed, such as fly-by-wire, composite materials, thrust-to-weight ratios greater than unity (enabling the plane to climb vertically), hypermanoeuvrability, advanced digital avionics and sensors such as
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Many third generation fighters were designed with the intent of having multi-role capabilities. Aircraft of this era were expected to carry a wide range of weapons and other ordnance, such as air-to-ground missiles and laser-guided bombs, while also being able to engage in air-to-air interception
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Parallel advances in materials, engine technology and electronics made such a machine possible. From the start of the new millennium, advanced systems concepts such as smart helmets, sensor/data fusion, and subsidiary attack drones were becoming realities. Bringing together and integrating such
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threat environment. Development time and cost are proving major factors in laying out practical roadmaps. Drones and other remote unmanned technologies are being increasingly deployed on the battlefields of the new millennium, and projects are underway to use them as semi-autonomous "
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had a lightly swept wing, but this was done principally to achieve balance, and the sweep was deliberately kept too little to have a significant aerodynamic effect.) They had little or no avionics, with their primary armament being manually-controlled guns. The
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The earliest jet fighters appeared during and after the last years of World War II. They were similar in most respects to their piston-engined contemporaries, having straight, effectively unswept wings and being of wood and/or light alloy construction. (The
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The introduction of the swept wing allowed transonic speeds to be reached, but controllability was often limited at such speeds. These aircraft were typically aimed at the air-superiority interceptor role. Notable types which took part in the
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Later variants of these and other aircraft progressively enhanced their characteristic technologies and increasingly incorporated aspects of each other's, as well as adopting some emerging fifth-generation technologies such as:
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The advent of more economical turbofan engines brought extended range and sortie times, while increased thrust could only partly deliver better performance and manoeuvrability across the speed range. Some designers resorted to
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synthetic radar and infrared search-and-track, and stealth. As these appeared piecemeal, designers returned to the fighter first and foremost, but with support roles mapped out as anticipated developments. The
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with fifth-generation avionics, the upgrade has been classed as fully fifth generation (meeting all fifth gen requirements except stealth). Many of these types remain in frontline service as of 2023.
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A number of new 4.5 generation types are being developed in the 2020s, post the emergence of the true 5th generation and contemporaneous with 6th generation aircraft development, these include the
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beyond visual range. This generation of fighters also brought forth numerous improvements in supporting avionics, including pulse-doppler radar, off-sight targeting, and terrain-warning systems.
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fighter—and its pilot—would need to be able to loiter for long periods, hold its own in combat, maintain battlefield awareness and seamlessly switch roles as the situation developed.
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highlighted extreme manoeuvrability with, respectively, strengthened exhaust nozzles for viffing (vectoring in forward flight) and manoeuvering control at high angles of attack as in
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were typical of this era. Many types were soon compromised by adaptations for battlefield support roles, and some of these would persist in new variants for multiple generations.
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web publication divides jet development, up to 2004, into five stages; pioneer (straight wing), swept wing, transonic, the 1960s and 1970s on, culminating in types such as the
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advances, along with those of the fourth generation, created what has become known as the fifth generation of fighters. The first of these is generally acknowledged to be the
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remained multi-role and developed a defensive/offensive sensor, avionics and weapons suite especially capable of anti-radar and anti-missile ground attack, while the
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These partial upgrades to 5th generation capability have led some commentators to identify intermediate generations as 4.5 or 4+ and 4++. In some cases, such as the
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listed one such division into five generations. Although details differ, the basic classification into five generations has since been widely adopted.
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The huge advance of digital computation and mobile networking, which began in the 1990s, led to a new model of sophisticated forward C (
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The exact criteria for the various generation steps are not universally agreed on and are subject to some controversy. For example,
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In the 1990s, a different division came into use in Russia, in which a "fifth generation" fighter was proposed as a counter to the
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proposed a classification of jet fighters into six generations up to that time. These may be broadly described as
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performance, while radar and infrared homing missiles greatly improved their accuracy and firepower. The U.S.
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was the first operational attack aircraft with vertical/short takeoff and landing (V/STOL) capabilities.
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The table below shows how some authors have divided up the generations, progressively since 1990.
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appeared too late for the war but was widely used and took part in several later ones.
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The Modern Defense Industry: Political, Economic, and Technological Issues
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classify the major technology leaps in the historical development of the
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introduced electronic flight control and wing-body blending, while the
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were still working up to operational service when the war ended.
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was one of the first operational fourth-generation jet fighters.
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in an attempt to reconcile these opposites. Types such as the
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aircraft, but this has been challenged by its competitors
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has applied the term "fifth generation" to its F-22 and
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Quest for Performance: The Evolution of Modern Aircraft
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was the first operational fifth-generation jet fighter.
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broke new ground in aerodynamic configuration with its
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Baker 2018, Chapter 1: "Genesis of the Generations".
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introduced stealth as a design concept. The Chinese
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was the most widely produced jet fighter in history.
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transonic
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Mach 2
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NASA
F-15
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Lockheed Martin
F-35
Eurofighter GmbH
Boeing IDS
People's Liberation Army
Me 262
DH Vampire
P-80
F-86
MiG-15
Hawker Hunter
F-100
MiG-19
F-104
MiG-21
Mirage III
F-4
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