Fairey Spearfish
A large carrier strike prototype designed during the Second World War for torpedo and dive-bombing missions.
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FFA P-16
A Swiss jet strike-fighter prototype optimized for short-field operations in mountainous terrain.
Ilyushin Il-54
A swept-wing supersonic bomber prototype representing Ilyushin’s final major jet-bomber development of the period.
Lockheed AH-56 Cheyenne
A compound-helicopter attack prototype developed for the U.S. Army Advanced Aerial Fire Support System requirement.
Lockheed YF-12
A Mach 3 interceptor prototype derived from Lockheed’s A-12 reconnaissance aircraft and equipped with radar-guided missiles.
McDonnell Douglas F/A-18 Hornet
A carrier-based multirole fighter developed from the YF-17 and selected to replace several U.S. Navy and Marine tactical aircraft types.
Messerschmitt Me 264
A very-long-range strategic bomber prototype associated with Germany’s Amerika Bomber requirements.
Mikoyan-Gurevich Ye-150 / Ye-152 family
A series of high-speed interceptor prototypes used to explore engines, radar, and missiles for future Soviet air-defense aircraft.
Mikoyan-Gurevich Ye-8
An advanced fighter prototype derived from the MiG-21 design and used to test a new intake and radar arrangement.
Mikoyan Project 1.44
A flown Russian advanced tactical-fighter prototype from the MFI program, intended to explore technologies for a post-Soviet air-superiority aircraft.
Myasishchev M-50
A large supersonic strategic bomber prototype built to investigate very-high-speed nuclear strike concepts.
Nanchang J-12
A very lightweight Chinese fighter prototype developed during the late 1960s and early 1970s.
Nieuport-Delage NiD 29
A French postwar single-seat fighter that became an important early-1920s service type and was also developed into record-setting racing variants.
Nurtanio NU-200 Sikumbang
An Indonesian light counterinsurgency and anti-guerrilla prototype representing an early indigenous combat-aircraft program.
Piper PA-48 Enforcer
A turboprop counterinsurgency and close-support prototype derived conceptually from the P-51 lineage.
Polikarpov I-185
A high-performance Soviet fighter prototype that underwent combat evaluation but did not enter series production.
PZL P.11
A Polish gull-wing fighter family developed from the Puławski line and the principal Polish fighter type at the outbreak of war in 1939.
Rockwell B-1 Lancer
A variable-sweep strategic bomber family whose B-1A prototypes first flew in 1974 and led to the later operational B-1B.