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If you like air planes because of the looks, look at the future page but if you like the power look at this page. There's jets, jumbo jets, passenger planes, gliders,and many many more. Some of the newest planes are the JSF (joint strike fighter,) Lockheed Martian's F-22 raptor, and the new Eurofighters that are being tested in Europe. Now back to the present, one of the newest Harriers out is the BAe Sea Harrier.The Royal Navy first flew it on August 20 1978. Its airframe was based on the RAF harrier. It indicates its roles as a reconnaissance and strike fighter, it operates off of three invincible class carrirrers with ski jumps for STO operations.

Specifications-

Radar: Ferranti Blue Fox multimode radar with interception,air to surface search and strike, and ground mapping functions.

Weapons: Provision for two 30-mm Aden cannon pods, plus 4 sidewinder air-to-air missiles, 2 Sea Eagle of similasr antiship missiles, bombs etc, up to total weight of 8000 lb for short take-offs and 5000 lb for vertical take-offs.

Accomodation: the pilot

wingspan; 25 feet

length: 47 feet

Maximum speed: Mach 1.25

Engine: One 21,500 rolls-royce peagasus.
  above: 5 BAe Sea Harriers flying in formation.
The A-10A is unique among the West's aircraft, being an extremely hardhitting, fairly low-speed close-support aircraft, with the ability to destroy armor with its 30-mm seven-barrel Abenger cannon and deliver up to an amazing 16,000 lb of other weapons. It is of interest to note that the Soviet Union deployed and aircraft for a similar role in the 1980s as the Sukhoi S-25, initially for service in Afghanistan. This is note worthy as it reflects development for a particular form of warfare, much as the A-10A can be viewed as the culmination of USAF experience in Vietnam when subsonic aircraft with very heavy payloads proved an operation necessity.

Specfication:

Weapons: One 30-mm General Electric GAU-8/A Avenger 7-barrel cannon plus 16,000lbs worth of weapons.

Accomodation: the pilot

Maximum speed: 439 mph

Engine:two 9065-lb thrust General Electric
   
Regarded by most observers as the world's No. 1 fighter, the F-15 was planned as the Fx in 1968 and the first prototype flew on 27 July 1972. The USaf planned to buy 729, but the total has now risen to 1299, of which almost 900 have been delivered. Despite the aircraft's high price and extremely high operation cost. F-15s have also been sold to Isrel and Saudi Arabia, and in Japan Mitsubishi is leading a team building 86 F-15Js under license. Statistics:

Radar:Hughes aircraft AN/APG-63

Weapons:One twenty-mm General Electric M61A-16-barrel cannon and it can carry 23,600 pounds of attack weapons.

Accomodation: the pilot

Engines:two 23,800 pound engines with afterburner capibility.

 
The first production F-16 for the Usaf. of what stands at a currennt expected total of 2795, joined the 388th Tactical Fighter Wing in January 1979. This eventual total includes those going to the Air Force Reserve and Air National Guard units. The first European nation to recive F-16s was Belgium, the air force receiving its first two in January 1979.

Statistics-

Radar: Westinghouse APG-68 pulse-Doppler range and angle track radar.

Weapons: One 20mm General Electric M61A-1 vulcan barrel cannon, also can holdup to 12,000 lbs.

Accomodation: the pilot