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List of active United States military aircraft. An F-16 Fighting Falcon of the United States Air Force in flight. The United States Armed Forces uses a wide variety of military aircraft across the respective aviation arms of its various service branches. The numbers of specific aircraft listed in the following entries are estimates from ...
An F-16C over Iraq in 2008. An F-22A Raptor flies over Andrews Air Force Base during an airshow in 2008. An F-35A in flight. A USAF B-52 bomber. A B-1B in flight over Afghanistan. A B-2 Spirit stealth bomber flies over the Pacific Ocean. An E-3 Sentry AWACS aircraft. One of 4 E-4B Nightwatch airborne command posts.
A U.S Air Force F-35A. This is a list of fighter aircraft used by the United States. This includes those of the 1962 United States Tri-Service aircraft designation system, 1924–1962 Air Force, pre-1962 Navy, and undesignated military aircraft. An F-16 Fighting Falcon (left), P-51D Mustang (bottom), F-86 Sabre (top), and F-22 Raptor (right ...
A size comparison of five of the largest aircraft: Airbus A380. Antonov An-225 Mriya. Boeing 747-8. Hughes H-4 Hercules. Stratolaunch. This is a list of large aircraft, including three types: fixed wing, rotary wing, and airships . The US Federal Aviation Administration defines a large aircraft as any aircraft with a certificated maximum ...
List of United States Air Force aircraft designations (1919–1962) List of United States Navy aircraft designations (pre-1962) List of United States Army aircraft designations (1956–1962) List of United States Tri-Service aircraft designations. List of U.S. DoD aircraft designations. List of undesignated military aircraft of the United States.
USS George Washington Carrier Strike Group underway in the Atlantic USS Constitution under sail for the first time in 116 years on 21 July 1997 The United States Navy has approximately 475 ships in both active service and the reserve fleet; of these approximately 50 ships are proposed or scheduled for retirement by 2028, while approximately 90 new ships are in either the planning and ordering ...
Belgian Navy: 5 of 10 delivered from 1985 remain in service as the Aster class (3 sold to France, 1 to Bulgaria, 1 to Pakistan) Bulgarian Navy: 1 in service. French Navy: 13 in service as the Eridan class. Indonesian Navy: 2 in service as the Pulau Rengat class. Latvian Naval Forces: 5 in service.
1934 – 1946 [5] First purpose-built US Navy aircraft carrier. [5] CV-5 [6] Yorktown [6] 3 [6] 1937 – 1947 [6] [7] Hornet was built after Wasp. [6] By the end of September 1942, both Yorktown and Hornet were on the bottom of the Pacific; USS Enterprise, the orphaned sister of the class, became a symbol of the Pacific War.