Aircraft
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Rafale C
Dassault Rafale
France's solo canard-delta multirole fighter. "Omnirole" was a design constraint, not marketing — one fleet had to cover nuclear deterrence, carrier operations, and the full conventional spectrum.
- Origin
- France
- Generation
- Gen 4.5
- Status
- In Service
- First flight
- 1991
Su-35S
Su-35S Flanker-E
The final form of the Flanker line — fourth-generation aerodynamics and agility taken to their limit, at the cost of abandoning stealth entirely.
- Origin
- Russia
- Generation
- Gen 4.5
- Status
- In Service
- First flight
- 2008
Typhoon FGR4
Eurofighter Typhoon
A four-nation canard-delta fighter with very low wing loading and outstanding climb and altitude performance — bought with two decades of political coordination and the cost that came with it.
- Origin
- United Kingdom · Germany · Italy · Spain
- Generation
- Gen 4.5
- Status
- In Service
- First flight
- 1994