Airforce personnel total about 8, 000 ; its equipment includes eight Russian-manufactured Sukhoi Su-27 fighter aircraft and transport planes.

The Air Force / Air Defense Forces had 8, 000 personnel and 90 combat capable aircraft, including 22 fighters, 59 fighter ground attack aircraft and 16 attack helicopters.

** Atlas Cheetah, a fighter aircraft of the South African Air Force

Observations from Greek fighter aircraft indicate a decompression problem.

* The plane will be escorted by armed fighter aircraft and will be forced to land.

* 2001 – The detained crew of a United States EP-3E aircraft that landed in Hainan, China after a collision with a J-8 fighter is released.

Solo military jet demos, also known as tactical demo, feature one aircraft, usually a strike fighter or an advanced trainer.

And in 1956, there were carried by the F3H-2M Demon and F7U Cutlass fighter aircraft.

The P < small >< sub > k </ sub ></ small > ( kill probability ) of the AIM-7E was less than 10 %; US fighter pilots shot down 55 aircraft using the Sparrow.

Indeed, the design qualities that make an effective low-level attack aircraft make for a distinctly inferior air superiority fighter, and vice versa.

Conversely, many fighter aircraft, such as the F-16, are often used as ' bomb trucks ,' despite being designed for aerial combat.

Perhaps the one meaningful distinction at present is the question of range: a bomber is generally a long-range aircraft capable of striking targets deep within enemy territory, whereas fighter bombers and attack aircraft are limited to ' theater ' missions in and around the immediate area of battlefield combat.

In 2007 the AF & ADF consisted of 18, 170 personnel ( two fighter / interceptor bases, four FGA / reconnaissance squadrons, one transport air base, training aircraft, and attack and support helicopters, SAM units ).

In 1990, Bulgaria had a total of more than 2, 400 tanks, 2, 000 armored vehicles, 2, 500 large caliber artillery systems, 300 fighter and bomber aircraft, 100 trainer aircraft, more than 40 combat and 40 transport helicopters, 4 submarine, 6 fast missile craft, 2 frigates, 5 corvettes, 6 torpedo boats, 9 patrol craft, 30 minesweepers and 21 transport vessels.

Aircraft design began specializing, primarily into two types: bombers, which carried explosive payloads to bomb land targets or ships ; and fighter-interceptors, which were used to either intercept incoming aircraft or to escort and protect bombers ( engagements between fighter aircraft were known as dog fights ).

Although production of Luftwaffe fighter aircraft continued, they would be unable to fly for lack of fuel.

On 8 November 1986 the Blue Angels completed their 40th anniversary year during ceremonies unveiling their present aircraft, the McDonnell Douglas F / A-18 Hornet, the first multi-role fighter / attack aircraft.

Control engineering has an essential role in a wide range of control systems, from simple household washing machines to high-performance F-16 fighter aircraft.

This overcomes the limitations of classical control theory in more sophisticated design problems, such as fighter aircraft control, with the limitation that no frequency domain analysis is possible.

Cannon have been used extensively in fighter aircraft since World War II, and in place of machine guns on land vehicles.

Although he is not graced with the subtleties of romantic technique, that's not what an ex-prize fighter is supposed to have, anyway.

* 1918 – World War I: German fighter ace Manfred von Richthofen, known as " The Red Baron ", is shot down and killed over Vaux-sur-Somme in France.

The latest AIM-120D AMRAAM has a significantly lower range of about, but the AMRAAM is much shorter, lighter, and more flexible in its use against a wide variety of targets, including fighter planes, bombers, helicopters, patrol planes, and reconnaissance planes.

The AMRAAM is also usable by a wide variety of fighter planes, including the F-4, F-15, F-16, F-18, F-22, Panavia Tornado, Eurofighter Typhoon, F-35 Lightning II, Swedish-made fighters, and ground-based launchers of the U. S. Army.

The fighter with the higher score at the end of the fight is ruled the winner.

If a fighter is knocked down during the fight, determined by whether the boxer touches the canvas floor of the ring with any part of their body other than the feet as a result of the opponent's punch and not a slip, as determined by the referee, the referee begins counting until the fighter returns to his or her feet and can continue.

A " technical knockout " ( TKO ) is possible as well, and is ruled by the referee, fight doctor, or a fighter's corner if a fighter is unable to safely continue to fight, based upon injuries or being judged unable to effectively defend themselves.

After counting the referee will observe the fighter, and decide if he is fit to continue.

If a " clinch " – a defensive move in which a boxer wraps his or her opponents arms and holds on to create a pause – is broken by the referee, each fighter must take a full step back before punching again ( alternatively, the referee may direct the fighters to " punch out " of the clinch ).

Mandinga can be translated into magic, or spell, but in capoeira a mandinguero is a clever fighter, able to trick the opponent.

The Street Fighter 2 game manual states that Blanka is also a Capoeira fighter, differing from current character description.

The Cimmerian is a talented fighter, but his travels have given him vast experience in other trades, especially as a thief ; he is also a talented commander, tactician and strategist, as well as a born leader.

What we have here is a fighter from way back, a master who continually grows and courageously adapts to new theories .”

Instead, he is like the Commissioner of Boxing, who urges each fighter to do his best.

The philosophy of Epictetus is well known in the American military through the writings and example of James Stockdale, an American fighter pilot who was shot down over North Vietnam, became a prisoner of war during the Vietnam War, and later a vice presidential candidate.

When a fighter is launched it is almost immediately followed by the VC10 as changeable weather conditions might make diversion to another airfield necessary.

This system was used successfully in two military projects: field test systems used to check the electronics of the Air Force General Dynamics F-111 Aardvark fighter plane and systems used to control the countdown and launch of the Army's Pershing missile.

Another type of military aircraft was to form the basis for an effective " fighter " in the modern sense of the word.

The primary driver of fighter innovation, right up to the period of rapid re-armament in the late 1930s, were not military budgets, but civilian aircraft racing.

The gladiator as a specialist fighter, and the ethos and organization of the gladiator schools, would inform the development of the Roman military as the most effective force of its time.

In 1999, Marrow starred in the HBO movie Stealth Fighter as a United States Naval Aviator who fakes his own death, steals a F-117 stealth fighter, and threatens to destroy United States military bases.

In the meantime, the Afghan military began seeking latest fighter aircraft and other advanced weapons.

It was mainly Sukhoi Su-7, MiG-21 fighter jets, T-34 and Iosif Stalin tanks, SU-76 self-propelled guns, GAZ-69 4x4 light trucks of jeep class ( in many versions ), ZIL-157 military trucks, Katyusha multiple rocket launchers, and BTR-40 and BTR-152 armored personnel carriers.

In the meantime, the Afghan military began seeking latest fighter aircraft and other advanced weapons.

Rust's flight through a supposedly impregnable air-defense system had great effect on the Soviet military and led to the firing of many senior officers, including Defence Minister Marshal of the Soviet Union Sergei Sokolov and the head of the Soviet Air Defense, former World War II fighter ace pilot Chief Marshal Alexander Koldunov.

Independence radical groups placed bombs on 11 jet fighters in 1981 in the Muñiz Base ( a U. S. military base ), and the U. S. removed all of its fighter aircraft from Puerto Rico.

He was known as a valiant and competent military leader and individual fighter: courageous and generous.

* February 21 – Libyan Arab Airlines Flight 114 ( Boeing 727 ) is shot down by Israeli fighter aircraft over the Sinai Desert, after the passenger plane is suspected of being an enemy military plane.

The most common arrangement is two complete sets of controls, one for each of two pilots sitting side by side, but in some planes ( military fighter aircraft, some taildraggers and aerobatic aircraft ) the dual sets of controls are arranged one in front of the other ( in tandem ).

Its domestic market is much smaller, and almost all wartime production was devoted to fighter and bomber types, while the US was also building military transport aircraft, which could be easily adapted to the airliner role.

A number of military planes were built there under license, among them the Gloster Meteor twin jet fighter and Lockheed's F-104 Starfighter.

With few military pilots left, the President, a former fighter pilot, rallies the refugees and garners a number of volunteers, including Casse.

Also, most modern military units can, if the situation requires it, call on yet more branches of the military, such as fighter or bomber aircraft or naval forces, to support their operations.

Aerobatics are taught to military fighter pilots as a means of developing flying skills and for tactical use in combat.

Examples of military pilots include fighter pilots, bomber pilots, transport pilots, UAV pilots, test pilots and astronauts.

Several prominent German military, cultural, and political figures in subsequent history, including poet Theodor Fontane, General Hermann von François, the hero of the First World War Battle of Tannenberg, Luftwaffe General and fighter ace Adolf Galland ; and famed U-boat captain Lothar von Arnauld de la Perière, trace their ancestry to the Huguenot refugees from France.

These were important advantages for some applications like first generation industrial programmable controllers, military installations and vehicles like fighter aircraft, as well as spacecraft, and led to core being used for a number of years after availability of semiconductor MOS memory ( see also MOSFET ).