Teen Series
The Teen Series is a popular name[1][2] for a group of US combat aircraft. The name stems from a series of US supersonic jet fighters built for the United States Air Force and the United States Navy during the late 20th century. The designations system was the 1962 United States Tri-Service aircraft designation system, which reset the F-# sequence. The term typically includes the F-14 Tomcat, F-15 Eagle, F-16 Fighting Falcon, and F/A-18 Hornet.[3]
Unsuccessful experimental and prototype fighters assigned numbers in the teen range (13-19) are generally not considered part of the series. Thus it does not include the Northrop YF-17, which later evolved into the F/A-18. The designations F-13 and F-19 were not assigned.
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F-14 Tomcat - twin-engine, two-seat, swing-wing fighter
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F-15 Eagle - twin-engine, tactical fighter
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F-16 Fighting Falcon - multirole fighter
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F/A-18 Hornet - carrier-capable multirole fighter
See also
- List of military aircraft of the United States
- F-19 (hypothetical US fighter aircraft)
- Century Series (US fighters of the 1950s and early 1960s)
Footnotes
- Bibliography
- Spick, Mike, ed. The Great Book of Modern Warplanes. St. Paul Minnesota: MBI, 2000. ISBN 0-7603-0893-4.
