Fighter

Fighter plane is a military plane designed to attack other aircraft in the air. Unlike the bomber, which is designed to attack targets on the surface. Relatively smaller fighter, fast, and agile. Fighter plane originally developed in World War I to face the bombers and the balloon began commonly used to perform ground attack and reconnaissance. 

The first fighter plane originally a wooden double wing fed light machine gun. In World War II, more combat aircraft made ​​of metal, single-winged, and use embedded machine guns on the wings. After World War II, began to replace the turbojet engine piston engines, and missiles began to be used to replace the machine gun as the primary weapon. 

Classification is based on the generation fighter plane. Use of this generation was originally used in the Russian defense officials, who called the F-22 Raptor fighter aircraft the United States as a "fifth generation". 

Fighter plane that was used for the war in the air. Generally fighter slender shape, can move swiftly, bringing canon (machine guns) and bombs and missiles, high-speed, equipped with avionics equipment that is much more than a civil aircraft / passengers as opposed to radar that can detect the target distance and lock the opponent. Moreover, equipped with radar-jamming equipment and rapscallion, until capable of "stealth" (stealth).