What is the military role of airplanes?

Initially, airplanes were mainly used for reconnaissance. On one occasion, the reconnaissance planes of the warring parties met in the air, and the pilots shot at each other with pistols or rifles. This is the earliest air combat.

In World War I, the performance of aircraft was improved, and guns and cannons used on the ground were gradually loaded on the aircraft. At first, the reconnaissance plane carried grenades, shells and ammunition, and threw several at each other every chance. This is the earliest bomber. Later, in order to deal with these reconnaissance planes and bombers with guns and bullets, some countries installed special machine guns on the planes, so the earliest fighters were born.

Fighters are also called fighters, formerly known as expellers. They are mainly used to annihilate all kinds of enemy planes in the air.

Fighters are more flexible, faster and more powerful than other aircraft in air combat. Other planes are as frightened as animals when they see hunters when they see fighter planes.

Modern fighters can be divided into two types according to their combat tasks: one is to intercept enemy planes from a long distance, and then attack them with medium-range air-to-air missiles on the plane after it finds them through radar. This kind of plane is called interceptor; The other is close combat, which mainly uses machine guns and close air-to-air missiles to shoot down enemy planes. This kind of plane is called a fighter. Just like fighting in the army. If the enemy is far away, he will shoot and fire. If he were around, he would fight with a bayonet.

In addition to air combat, modern fighters can also attack ground and water targets.