Top 15 USAF Combat Aircraft

Top 15 USAF Combat Aircraft

Why the top 15 United States Air Force Craft? Cause our hands got plain tired when we realized the US Air Force has had some many incredible combat aircraft throughout its history and listing them all would have taken decades! You will find 15 top high performance aircraft and even though these were our picks we know you will have your opinion and we welcome that. Comment below and let us know your favorite USAF aircraft and we will update our list!

 

Light the fires and kick the tires!

  1. F-16 – The Falcon. Fave this one down and be reduced to a charred, smoldering black plume of dust traveling at over Mach speeds. Not your definition of a good day!
  2. F-15 Eagle – Simply owned the skies with the most advanced tech of its day! She commanded the air!
  3. A-10 – Video Air Museum in Yuma The Thunderbolt! With the incredible GAU8 Avenger gun these Tusk drivers knows what it is like to reduce enemy tank columns to swiss cheese!

 

 

  1. F-22 – She will have your entire squadron spitting blood before you even know she is there!
  2. AC-130 Spectre Gunship – Welcome to the Messenger of God’s wrath. Pick from a variety of weapons and be reduced to cinders from miles away. Raining lead and destruction on a tactical level!
  3. F-111 – One of the finest tactical strike aircraft in the USAF arsenal!
  4. F-117 The Nighthawk! The first aircraft created featuring low radar detection signature and  has later been referred to as a stealth aircraft. First read about in the Tim Clancy book Red Storm Rising!
  5. B-1 The Lancer! Created by Rockwell International the B-1 was envisioned with Mach 2 speed, and a low-level penetrator. The B-1B entered service in 1986 with the USAF Strategic Air Command (SAC) as a nuclear bomber.
  6. B-2 The Spirit! As a stealth configured aircraft the Spirit was the only aircraft with the ability to carry stand off air-to-surface weapons within its aircraft platform.
  7. P51 Mustang – video
    The P-51 Mustang was the first World War 2 piston aircraft that was capable of arriving on the scene when escorted bombers were destined for bombing raids over Nazi Europe. Able to handle the distance they were capable of escorting the heavies to and back from their bombing runs! Seen in films like Red Tails and piloted by Negro pilots, The Tuskegee Airmen, these amazing pilots were skilled in bomber protection, air to air dogfighting and in one case the successful destruction of a German destroyer.
  8. B-17 – Video    Tour inside B-17  The most indestructable bomber of WW2 you could shoot half a tail, half a wing, break all the windows, lose 3 engines and still get the beast home. The Memphis Belle made her famous when she returned from all her required bombing missions she become one of the most famous aircraft of all time.
  9. B-29 The Superfortress! With a pressurized cabin she could fly at height incapable of Japanese fighters reaching her she was responsible for eliminating Japan from WW2 with the atomic bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. The Enola Gay was the name of one these bombers that conducted the Little Boy drop on Hiroshima.
  10. B-24 Liberator – Video  An American Heavy Bomber. Able to deliver the first ever precision guided munitions up to 1000lb bombs.
  11. Air Force 1 – One of the most widely know aircraft perhaps in the world Air Force One is responsible for transporting the Presidents of the United States during their frequent travel schedules. Well know as it may be the technology aboard her is some of the most secretive in the US military.
  12. SR-71 Blackbird – Video Air museum in Yuma – The only aircraft flown by the US Air Force that required the use of Mercury Astronaut spacesuits. She was sleek and beautiful with some of the finest lines every displayed on an aircraft.

 

You either fly them or you service them and keep them in the air and if you do then you are specialized and have an Air Force Specialty that needs to be recognized! Fly’em, fix’em, keep them going takes a team of specialized US Air Force personnel.

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