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SEA AND AIR
Modern military aircraft

FRONT VIEW OF A
MODERN MILITARY AIRCRAFT ARE AMONG THE MOST SOPHISTICATED and expensive PANAVIA TORNADO
products of the 21st century. Fighters need computer-operated controls for
maneuverability, powerful engines, and effective air-to-air weapons. Most modern Instrument
fighters also have guided missiles, radar, and passive, infrared sensors. These landing system
antenna
developments enable today’s fighters to engage in combat with adversaries
that are outside visual range. Bombers carry a large weapon load and enough
Birdproof
fuel for long-range flights. A few military aircraft, such as the Tornado and windshield Port variable-
incidence
the F-14 Tomcat, have variable-sweep (“swing”) wings. During takeoff
Air data air intake
and landing their wings are fully extended, but for high-speed probe
Wing-root
flight and low-level attacks the wings are pivoted fully back. A glove fairing
recent development is the “stealth” bomber, which
is designed to absorb or deflect enemy radar in
order to remain undetected. Earlier
bombers, such as the Tornado, use
terrain-following radars to fly so close to
Starboard
the ground that they avoid enemy radar detection.
inboard Taileron
stores pylon
Starboard main
landing gear door
Wing extended Wing pivoted Main landing gear leg
for takeoff and back for high- Radome
landing speed flight containing
Laser ranger and ground-mapping,
marked-target seeker
attack, and terrain-
following radars
Starboard nose gear door
Steerable twin-wheel nose gear Taxiing light

SWING-WING F-14 TOMCAT FIGHTER Navigator’s Single canopy over both
Pilot’s cockpit cockpits
SIDE VIEW OF A PANAVIA TORNADO GR1A cockpit Navigator’s Engine air intake
(RECONNAISSANCE VERSION), 1986 instrument console Navigation light
Flat, birdproof
windshield
High-velocity air
duct to disperse rain
Upper “request
identification” antenna

Air data
probe

Radome containing
ground-mapping, Pitot Hinged auxiliary
attack, and terrain- UHF antenna head air intake
following radars Nose gear
Angle-of-attack probe door Cold air intake (ram scoop)
Tacan (tactical air navigation) antenna Steerable Heat exchanger exhaust duct
nose gear leg Twin
Emergency canopy release handle nose Window covering
wheel infrared reconnaissance camera

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