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00:01:22 1 Terminology
00:04:49 2 Development overview
00:09:58 3 Piston engine fighters
00:10:08 3.1 World War I
00:18:40 3.2 Inter-war period (1919–38)
00:25:51 3.3 World War II
00:27:32 3.3.1 European theater
00:31:42 3.3.2 Pacific theater
00:35:15 3.3.3 Technological innovations
00:40:07 3.4 Post–World War II period
00:42:13 4 Rocket-powered fighters
00:44:32 5 Jet-powered fighters
00:45:32 5.1 First–generation subsonic jet fighters (mid–1940s to mid–1950s)
00:51:21 5.2 Second–generation jet fighters (mid–1950s to early 1960s)
00:54:47 5.3 Third generation jet fighters (early 1960s to circa 1970)
00:58:55 5.4 Fourth generation jet fighters (circa 1970 to mid-1990s)
01:05:43 5.5 4.5th generation jet fighters (1990s to 2000)
01:10:31 5.6 Fifth generation jet fighters (2005 to the present)
01:16:47 5.7 Sixth generation jet fighters
01:18:29 6 Fighter weapons
01:29:50 7 See also



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SUMMARY
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A fighter aircraft is a military aircraft designed primarily for air-to-air combat against other aircraft, as opposed to bombers and attack aircraft, whose main mission is to attack ground targets. The hallmarks of a fighter are its speed, maneuverability, and small size relative to other combat aircraft.
Many fighters have secondary ground-attack capabilities, and some are designed as dual-purpose fighter-bombers; often aircraft that do not fulfill the standard definition are called fighters. This may be for political or national security reasons, for advertising purposes, or other reasons.A fighter's main purpose is to establish air superiority over a battlefield. Since World War I, achieving and maintaining air superiority has been considered essential for victory in conventional warfare. The success or failure of a belligerent's efforts to gain air superiority hinges on several factors including the skill of its pilots, the tactical soundness of its doctrine for deploying its fighters, and the numbers and performance of those fighters. Because of the importance of air superiority, since the early days of aerial combat armed forces have constantly competed to develop technologically superior fighters and to deploy these fighters in greater numbers, and fielding a viable fighter fleet consumes a substantial proportion of the defense budgets of modern armed forces.