>F15
>F16
>F18
>F22
>F35
wtf america can you even count
>>29267610
>F-80
>F-84
>F-86
>F-4
>>29267610
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northrop_YF-17
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/F-19
This one cannot be confirmed nor denied that it exists.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northrop_F-20_Tigershark
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/IAI_Kfir
F-21
Was in the US Navy.
Now fuck off.
>>29267641
So what happened to the
>F23
>F24
>F25
>F26
>F27
>F28
>F29
>F30
>F31
>F32
>F33
>F44
>?????
>>29267670
F-23 was what the YF-23 would have been. F-24 to F-31 were skipped, F-32 would have been the X-32, F-33 and F-34 were also skipped. Why? Because fuck you, it's the US Air Force who can skip B-3, B-4, B-5, B-6, B-7, B-8, B-9, B-10, B-11, B-12, B-13, B-14, B-15, B-16, B-17, B-18, B-19, and B-20 just so that they can designate their new bomber B-21.
>>29267610
There was some weird shit prior to 1962.
After 1962 there were a few that were skipped, outliers such as the F/A-18 which don't conform to the naming scheme and many that received a military designation but were never put into service.
>>29267610
different companies and prototypes
>>29267610
>wtf america can you even count
No.
>>29267694
You realize that most of those bomber designations actually HAVE been used, right?
>>29267694
>B-17
>skipped
Nigga, what?
>>29267610
It's based on engine size. The F35 has a 3.5 liter.
>>29268465
>>29268465
turbo or supercharger?
>>29268498
yes
It has to do with development and procurement. When proposals and prototypes get to a certain stage in competition, the branch looking to acquire them assigns a designator. Failed proposals or those not picked still thusly fall into the military's numbering system meaning they can't re-use them until they re-organize the system, leading to what appears to be "skips."
At least, I'm pretty sure that's usually what happens.
>>29268297
>>29268449
He means for the current designation system that's used
>>29267670
Do you understand that when a knew plane is ordered, few prototypes are ordered, built by different companies. So you have multiples names for almost the same plane (or tank or whatever). Now git out
>>29268498
Vtec yo
>>29267610
it means the f-35 is ready for use in 2035
>>29268852
But they have internal names.
There is no excuse for the cluster fuck naming.
>>29268875
But you have internal disfonction.
There is no excuse for your autism
>>29268875
The military's system is specifically NOT cluster fuck naming. It's a lot easier to have some vacancies between numbers than to have to differentiate between the the B-X that failed the competition, the B-X that was cancelled due to cost overruns, the B-X that didn't meet original requirements so it's being reworked, and the B-X that is actually in service.
>>29268997
Why not F/A-35
>>29269017
What do you mean? Why didn't they name it they F/A-35 instead of just F-35? Because honestly I don't know, considering they want it to have a decent ground attack component to it as well. Maybe because that wasn't an original design goal, but fuck if I know.
>>29269017
Because the F/A designation is not actually in line with the current naming scheme. It should be "AF-18" or "FA-18" not "F/A-18." That and it should be the F-24 not the F-35. For some reason it picked up the X-35 designation and kept the 35 into production.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1962_United_States_Tri-Service_aircraft_designation_system
>>29267694
It's called B-21 because they can't call it B-2.1 :^)
>>29268000
I'm not American and I hate math too. It's an absolutely retarded fairy world where things like point and a perfect circle exist.
>>29269053
Because the chair force is run by toddlers who want shiny toys with cool names and are called FIGHTER. Because they're at that age where they don't have much actual reasoning remaining anymore, but just want stuff to "sound good".
