A Fighter Plane That Could Shoot Itself Down The F 11 Tiger
Subscribe to Dark Skies: The Soviet fighter MiG15 proved to be a menace that the United States wasn t ready to take on. In an effort to create an aircraft that could beat the Soviet fighter jet, the Grumman Aircraft Engineering Corporation started to redesign its existing fighter aircraft, the F9 Cougar. In line with Grumman s tradition of naming their carrierbased fighters after felines, the Navy chose the name Tiger for the F11F.
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