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    SkyChimp's Avatar Senior Member
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    Gotta pick?

    I'm leaning towards the F-4 Phantom or the F-15 Eagle. 30+ years of service, each. Stalwarts in the Cold War. The Phantom used by a huge number of countries. The Eagle with a 100+:0 air-to-air kill:loss ratio.
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    Difficult.

    Historys greatest fighter says the F-15 is it. Current technology suggests the Su-27 or some variant therein is the greatest fighter. Future technology in a couple of months presumes that the F/A-22 will be the best fighter in service anywhere.
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    As far as I'm concerned, Ray "Boom Boom" Mancini was the greatest fighter ever.
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    i think my pick would have to be either the phantom or the p51. The phantom is truly a great aircraft and has been in so many different national inventories I can't even come close to mentioning, but heres a try. The USA (Air Force, Navy, ANG, and Marines), Australia, Egypt, West Germany, Greece, Iran, Israel, Japan, Saudi Arabia, South Korea, Spain, Turkey, and Britain (RAF and RN).

    The p51 earned its great fame during world war 2, served through Korea and into the ANG until 1957. Hell, it has served in various air forces until it was finally retired in 1983 by the Dominican Republic. 40+ years of service, not too shabby.

    I think some other notables would be the Mirage series and the MiG 21.
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    The J29 Tunnan. When the superpowers were arguing between the F-86 and MiG-15, the J29 owned them both.
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    <BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><font size="-1">quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by VW-IceFire:
    Current technology suggests the Su-27 or some variant therein is the greatest fighter. . <HR></BLOCKQUOTE>MIGHT have been true during the eighties & nineties , but the USAF has the best avionics & missiles now

    & the most uber dominant fighter ever surely has to be the F/A22

    it does what all modern fighter pilots want to be able to do , the safest fighter to be flying in a modern air-war enviroment

    besides that , id say the F15 to due to its service history , mind you im only going as far back as the start of WW2 , dont know stuff all about WW1 planes

    (the F4's worst nightmare = Mig17s , not like those crappy Mig19s)
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    And just encae Oleg is interested in adding another 109Z type of plane



    And now for something completly different

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    I'll put my money on Superman.
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    I was actually thinking of Skeletor.Because no matter how many times he f@cked up he didn`t stop fighting He-Man.
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