When we think of fighter jets, we envision powerful, fast, and deadly machines that dominate the skies and represent the pinnacle of military technology. However, not all fighter jets have achieved legendary status. In this video, we delve into the world of military aviation to uncover the five worst fighter jets ever built. From design flaws and underperformance to safety issues and economic failures, these aircraft became symbols of failure rather than success.
Join us as we explore the stories of the Yakovlev Yak-38, Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-23, Convair F-102 Delta Dagger, Heinkel He 162, and Vought F7U Cutlass. We’ll discuss what went wrong with these projects and how their failures helped shape the evolution of modern fighter jets. Whether you’re an aviation enthusiast or a military history buff, this deep dive into aviation disasters is sure to fascinate you.
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5 WORST FIGHTER JETS IN MILITARY AVIATION HISTORY
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Missing the F-104 the widow maker
Mig-23 MLD, the final version of that "controversial" airplane was the one, who in fact, fixed all of the issues of the earlier productions. In fact it was much more than an upgrade but came to late to be produced in significant number (about 500) because the Mig-29 was already scheduled to replace him. It was much lighter, had a better engine with redesigned vertical tail and was much more manuverable than the first version of Mig-23. The Mig-27 was a ground-attack fighter-bomber, developped from the Mig-23 platform.
Brewster Buffalo in good hands is a fine fighter. People and circumstances chance.
There's some massive clueless shit in this video. No thankyou to YouTube for showing me this
It is clear that you have no idea how to design aircraft and do not understand the history of the rapid change in technology that occurred between 1945 and 1960. You openly accuse the engineering staff and management of Convair of malfeasance at best and criminal negligence at worst, neither of which is correct. The F-102 was designed to an extremely ambitious government specification and all parties involved knew it. The Air Force did not collude with Convair to produce the F-102, Convair won the contract because its proposal was superior to those of its competitors. The use of the AIM- 4 Falcon instead of the Sidewinder and omitting a gun, was all at the direction of the Government. (Ref to Bell’s P-39 ten years prior to this) Convair had every incentive to design and build the best airplane in the world and moved heaven and earth to make it so. Optimistic engine performance numbers and lack of transonic wind tunnels caused the aero data to be misleading and the airplane to be draggier and slower than predicted, not slacking on the part of the engineering staff.
Look at the array of aircraft designed during the same period; they had similarly poor safety records. It has always been a bad idea to design a new airplane around a new engine and a new weapons system. The Hughes Falcon was designed to shoot down bombers, not fighters and was proven to be inferior to the Sidewinder in a shoot-out at Holloman. Inter-service rivalries and corporate pressure from Howard Hughes kept the Falcon in production and service way too long.
In short, it is grossly unfair to single out the F-102 for this sort of slander. It was a transitional aircraft system in a period of rapid technological change. Some of the best and brightest engineers tried their best to push the state-of-the-art in the mid-fifties and the Convair guys were no slouches.
Could you have done better than the F-102? You can only use a slide rule, pencil and paper, and aerodynamic data annotated in German from early 1945. You have to use the engine, weapons, and radar that I specify and you have to be “cheaper” than the other competitors. Good luck.
AI still cant read numbers correctly. This would be a much better channel if a real human read the script
The mig 23 actually was developed to be a very good fighter. There were some British designs that were much worse than the mig and the dagger