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As such, they can supplement and reinforce the air-superiority aircraft if massive air battles develop.
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At the outbreak of the Korean War, a superb air-superiority aircraft, the F-86 Sabre, was entering service, while two first-generation fighter jets, the F-80 Shooting Star and the F-84 Thunderjet, covered the fighter-bomber role.
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The model was quickly superseded by more advanced aircraft, designed for certain specific, limited roles, with no attempt to cover either the air-superiority or fighter-bomber mission.
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Though designed and built with slightly less technical sophistication than the air-superiority models, these aircraft fill a much wider role.
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The “high” component consists of a dedicated air-superiority fighter, utilizing the latest aeronautical technology, fitted with state-of the-art electronics, and carrying the most advanced air-to-air weapons.
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The F-22 is the most effective air-superiority weapon ever devised — the sole current operational example of the fifth-generation fighter.
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When WWII began in the Pacific, the Japanese possessed a world-class air-superiority fighter in the Mitsubishi A6M Zero.
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While an excellent aircraft, the F-4 was in many ways the apotheosis of the fighter-bomber, too heavy and lacking the agility to fill the air-superiority role.
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The F-22 was designed as an air-superiority fighter and is probably superb in that capacity when pitched against existing or potential air superiority fighters of rival powers.
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It would be far smarter for the U.S. to prepare for the likelihood that Beijing will develop and build far more than 187 fifth-generation air-superiority fighters.
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