Japan's A6M Zero, Germany's Messerschmitt Bf 109, and the U.S. P-51 Mustang are all well-known from this era ... a jet engine, and it served the U.S. well in Vietnam. Read more: 14 Best Fighter ...

The F-105 had plenty going for it, including an ability to carry more ordnance than a WWII-era B-17 Flying ... start for any fighter jet, but it went on to serve during the Vietnam War as the ...

In the early years of the Cold War, both the United States and the Soviet Union were engineering and producing new fighter ... Soviet aircraft and American planes, and the Vietnam War only ...

That’s because the Pentagon needed a plane that could fly low and hover for protracted periods over a battlefield—a niche that jets couldn’t fill. In other words, the A-1 was America’s original Close ...