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the Soviet Yakovlev Yak-140 fighter was denied permission to begin flight tests by the Ministry of Aviation Industry, which favored competing designs from Sukhoi and Mikoyan-Gurevich.

during its one year of existence, the Tainan Air Group produced more aces than any other fighter unit in the Imperial Japanese Navy.

the Hukou F-5F crash in May 2007 involved an F-5/F jet fighter hitting a military base in Taiwan while simulating a low attack, killing four people.

the Reggiane Re.2007 was a proposed Italian fighter aircraft to be used in the final phase of World War II as a defense against the increasing Allied bombing raids.

the first British fighter pilot to die in World War II was killed in a friendly fire incident known as the Battle of Barking Creek.

after the death of Nikolai Polikarpov in 1944, the Polikarpov TIS fighter program was canceled and his group disbanded.

Australian fighter pilot Lieutenant (later Air Vice Marshal) Adrian Cole (pictured) was awarded the Military Cross in 1917 for attacking six enemy aircraft threatening Allied cavalry.

France has strengthened bilateral ties with India by signing agreements allowing it to purchase French-made nuclear reactors, the Mirage 2000 fighters, and the Scorpène submarines.

Flight Lieutenant Bobby Gibbes landed his single-seat fighter in the North African desert in 1942 to rescue a comrade who had been shot down, jettisoning his own parachute to accommodate his passenger.

Luftwaffe ace Erich Rudorffer flew more than 1000 missions during World War II, and was shot down sixteen times by enemy flak and fighters.

Norman Williams shot down eight German aircraft while serving as an air gunner in Halifax bombers in the Second World War, becoming the most highly decorated non-commissioned officer in the RAAF and its only "ace" who was not a fighter pilot.

PWS-10 designed in late 1920s was the first Polish fighter to enter serial production.

Czech Second World War fighter pilot František Fajtl briefly flew for the French Air Force before commanding units in the Royal Air Force and then a Czechoslovak regiment formed by the Soviet Union.

Fighter Aircraft: A Quiz on Jet Fighters and Their Evolution

1 Grumman's ________ was adopted by the U.S. Navy as their primary jet fighter in the Korean War period, and it was one of the first jet fighters to employ an afterburner.

2 The development of second-generation fighters was shaped by technological breakthroughs, lessons learned from the aerial battles of the ________, and a focus on conducting operations in a nuclear warfare environment.

3 To spread the development costs – and production base – more broadly, the ________ (JSF) program enrolls eight other countries as cost- and risk-sharing partners.

4 More powerful ________ became a priority early in the war, once it became apparent that newer stressed-skin monoplane fighters could not be easily shot down with rifle-caliber machine guns.

5 ________- and IR-guided air-to-surface missiles were introduced to augment traditional gravity bombs, and some were also equipped to deliver a nuclear bomb.

6 [6] With range and payload capabilities that rivaled that of World War II bombers such as ________, the Phantom would became a highly successful multirole aircraft.

7 With ________ wings, the supersonic F-111 introduced the Pratt & Whitney TF30, the first turbofan equipped with afterburner.

8 In-line engines often had a better ________, but there were radial engines that kept working even after having suffered significant battle damage.

9 The word "fighter" did not become the official English term for such aircraft until after ________.

10 China is reported to be pursuing multiple fifth-generation projects under the western code name; ________, while Japan is exploring their technical feasibility to produce fifth-generation fighters.

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