On Sat, 20 Sep 2003 11:29:48 +0200 Matevz Jekovec <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> For modern military aircrafts, I would make the following hierarchy: > - Fighter (most of F-xx, Rafale, MiG-s, Sukhoi-s) > - Attack (A-10, Harrier, Tornado, Mirage 2000, my J-22, Su-25) > - Bomber (F-117, B-1, B-2, B-52, Iljusin-s) > - Transport-Support (Hercules, Galaxy, KC-10, KC-135, Antonov-s) > - EWS (EC-3? AWACS, Prowler) > - Recon (light, fast, reconaissance aircrafts) > - Trainee (light military aircrafts developed specially for teaching) hum... The Mirage 2000C is definitely a fighter, whereas the Mirage 2000D would be a fighter-bomber (is that what you call attack aircraft?), as it does have air-to-air capacity. The Mirage F1C was a fighter (no longer in service in France), the F1CT is an attack aircraft, and the F1CR a reconnaissance aircraft. All of them can act as fighters as well. And the Rafale was designed to be a multirole aircraft as well. Maybe you could make some distinctions among MiG and Sukhoi aircraft... For instance, the Su-27 was mainly a fighter, until more recent versions gained air-to-ground capacity, whereas the Su-25 is just an attack aircraft. I'm not really criticizing, but I'm saying it's going to be more and more difficult to sort all these modern aircraft in categories. -- Jorge Van Hemelryck _______________________________________________ Flightgear-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-devel
