Air superiority fighter A military fixed‑wing aircraft optimized to gain and maintain control of the airspace by defeating enemy fighters and denying hostile air operations.
Alexander Sergeyevich Yakovlev Soviet aircraft designer (1906–1989) who founded the Yakovlev design bureau and created a range of fighters, trainers and civil types influential in Soviet aviation history.
Bell P-63 Kingcobra US single-engine fighter developed from the P-39 Airacobra; improved aerodynamics and armament, used extensively by the Soviet Union under Lend-Lease and later modified as the RP-6…
