{"id":2617,"date":"2021-02-25T09:32:23","date_gmt":"2021-02-25T04:02:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/55nda.com\/blogs\/anil-khosla\/?p=2617"},"modified":"2024-12-27T15:30:33","modified_gmt":"2024-12-27T10:00:33","slug":"first-generation-fighter-aircraft","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/55nda.com\/blogs\/anil-khosla\/2021\/02\/25\/first-generation-fighter-aircraft\/","title":{"rendered":"55: FIRST GENERATION FIGHTER AIRCRAFT"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Categorization of fighter jets in generations is a classification system used around the world. <\/span><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The basic classification into five generations is widely accepted and recognized. Some accounts have subdivided the 4th generation into 4 and 4.5, or 4+ and 4++.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; color: #000080;\"><u>First generation subsonic jet fighters (mid 1940s to mid 1950s)<\/u><\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; color: #000080;\">This category comprised of the earliest subsonic jet fighters that appeared during and after the last years of World War II.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; color: #0000ff;\">They were similar in most respects to their piston-engine contemporaries, having generally straight wings and being of wood and\/or light alloy construction.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; color: #3366ff;\">The main feature of Gen 1 fighter was their advance in speed over its piston-engine predecessors. Introduction of the swept wing allowed transonic speeds to be reached, but controllability was often limited at such speeds. The jet engines did not have afterburners and the aircraft operated in the subsonic regime.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; color: #003366;\">They had basic avionic They had no radars or self- protection countermeasures, and were armed with machine guns or cannons, as well as unguided bombs and rockets.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; color: #008080;\">These aircraft were typically aimed at the air-superiority interceptor role.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; color: #800000; text-decoration: underline;\">According to available sources, f<\/span><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; color: #800000; text-decoration: underline;\">ighters in this generation include the following:-<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<ul style=\"list-style-type: square;\">\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; color: #800080;\">Messerschmitt Me 262 Schwalbe<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; color: #800080;\">Heinkel He 162 Salamander<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; color: #800080;\">Messershmitt Me 162 Komet<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; color: #800080;\">Gloster Meteor<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; color: #800080;\">de Havilland Vampire<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; color: #800080;\">de Havilland Venom<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; color: #800080;\">Hawker Siddeley\/Armstrong Whitworth Sea Hawk<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; color: #800080;\">Supermarine Attacker<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; color: #800080;\">Supermarine Swift<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; color: #800080;\">Lockheed P-80 (F-80) Shooting Star<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; color: #800080;\">Republic F-84 Thunderjet \/ Thunderstreak<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; color: #800080;\">North American F-86 Sabre<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; color: #800080;\">Northrop F-89 Scorpion<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; color: #800080;\">Lockheed F-94 Starfire<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; color: #800080;\">McDonnell FH-1 Phantom<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; color: #800080;\">Vought F6U Pirate<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; color: #800080;\">Vought F7U Cutlass<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; color: #800080;\">North American FJ (F-1) Fury<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; color: #800080;\">McDonnell F2H (F-2) Banshee<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; color: #800080;\">McDonnell F3H (F-3) Demon<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; color: #800080;\">Douglas F4D (F-6) Skyray<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; color: #800080;\">Grumman F9F (F-9) Panther \/ Cougar<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; color: #800080;\">Douglas F3D (F-10) Skyknight<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; color: #800080;\">Mikoyan Gurevich MiG-15<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; color: #800080;\">Mikoyan Gurevich MiG-17<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; color: #800080;\">Lavochkin La-15<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; color: #800080;\">Yakovlev Yak-15<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; color: #800080;\">Yakovlev Yak-17<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; color: #800080;\">Yakovlev Yak-23<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; color: #800080;\">Dassault Ouragan<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; color: #800080;\">Dassault Myst\u010dre<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; color: #800080;\">Saab J21R<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; color: #800080;\">Saab J29<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; color: #800080;\">Saab Lansen<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; color: #800080;\">Avro Canada CF-100 Canuck<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; color: #ff0000;\">Coming Up: Generation wise description (2nd &#8211; 6th)<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><span style=\"color: #000000; text-decoration: underline;\"><em><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino, serif; font-size: 12pt;\">References:<\/span><\/em><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/www.airforce-technology.com\/features\/top-sixth-generation-fighter-jets\/<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><em><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino, serif; font-size: 12pt;\"><a style=\"color: #000000; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sldinfo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/Air-Combat-Seminar-summary-AndrewMcL.pdf\">https:\/\/www.sldinfo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/Air-Combat-Seminar-summary-AndrewMcL.pdf<\/a><\/span><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><em><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino, serif; font-size: 12pt;\"><a style=\"color: #000000; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.fighterworld.com.au\/az-of-fighter-aircraft\/five-generations-of-jets\">https:\/\/www.fighterworld.com.au\/az-of-fighter-aircraft\/five-generations-of-jets<\/a><\/span><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><em><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino, serif; font-size: 12pt;\"><a style=\"color: #000000; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.codeonemagazine.com\/archives\/2005\/articles\/oct_05\/\">http:\/\/www.codeonemagazine.com\/archives\/2005\/articles\/oct_05\/<\/a><\/span><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><em><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino, serif; font-size: 12pt;\">https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Fifth_generation_fighter<\/span><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><em><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino, serif; font-size: 12pt;\"><a style=\"color: #000000; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.airforce-technology.com\/features\/top-sixth-generation-fighter-jets\/?utm_source=Army%20Technology&amp;utm_medium=website&amp;utm_campaign=Must%20Read&amp;utm_content=Image\">https:\/\/www.airforce-technology.com\/features\/top-sixth-generation-fighter-jets\/?utm_source=Army%20Technology&amp;utm_medium=website&amp;utm_campaign=Must%20Read&amp;utm_content=Image<\/a><\/span><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><em><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino, serif; font-size: 12pt;\"><a style=\"color: #000000; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/jetflights\/fighter-jet-generations\/\">https:\/\/migflug.com\/jetflights\/fighter-jet-generations\/<\/a><\/span><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><em><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino, serif; font-size: 12pt;\">http:\/\/www.aerospaceweb.org\/question\/history\/q0182.shtml<\/span><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 18pt; color: #993366;\">Comments and value additions are most welcome<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Categorization of fighter jets in generations is a classification system used around the world. The basic classification into five generations is widely accepted and recognized. Some accounts have subdivided the 4th generation into 4 and 4.5, or 4+ and 4++. &nbsp; First generation subsonic jet fighters (mid 1940s to mid 1950s) This category comprised of &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/55nda.com\/blogs\/anil-khosla\/2021\/02\/25\/first-generation-fighter-aircraft\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;55: FIRST GENERATION FIGHTER AIRCRAFT&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[77,5,19,75,28,1],"tags":[109,6,47,42,51,110,38,30],"class_list":["post-2617","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aircraft","category-airpower","category-article","category-iaf","category-technology","category-uncategorized","tag-aircraft","tag-airpower","tag-defence-services","tag-fighter-pilot","tag-flying","tag-generation-of-ac","tag-indian-air-force","tag-technology"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/55nda.com\/blogs\/anil-khosla\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2617","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/55nda.com\/blogs\/anil-khosla\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/55nda.com\/blogs\/anil-khosla\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/55nda.com\/blogs\/anil-khosla\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/55nda.com\/blogs\/anil-khosla\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2617"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/55nda.com\/blogs\/anil-khosla\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2617\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8527,"href":"https:\/\/55nda.com\/blogs\/anil-khosla\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2617\/revisions\/8527"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/55nda.com\/blogs\/anil-khosla\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2617"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/55nda.com\/blogs\/anil-khosla\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2617"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/55nda.com\/blogs\/anil-khosla\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2617"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}