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n. (context aircraft military English) A military aircraft primarily designed to attack enemy aircraft. Frequently shortened to fighter.
Usage examples of "fighter plane".
What he wouldn't have given to have access to a supersonic fighter plane like the F-104B….
Had he come right in over the coast they would have met the fighter plane!
The wreckage of an American fighter plane lay just outside the prison gates, the upright tail the only piece intact.
For a long time stealth technology had detracted from a fighter plane's agility and power, until the advent of supercruise had alleviated some of the power problems.
The flight decks on Nimitz-class carriers covered four and a half acres, but they looked ridiculously tiny from the cockpit of a fighter plane positioning itself for a trap.
Graduates of McConnell have to understand every nut and bolt, every silicon chip and microcircuit of the bewildering array of ordnance that a modern fighter plane can launch at its opponents, in the air or on the ground.
Just as his F-15J was an improved local version of an American fighter plane, so the E-767 was a vastly improved Japanese interpretation of another American invention.
They got to play fighter plane, and all such people prefer shooting other airplanes down to dropping bombs on mud soldiers.