Field guide
Every target in the game and what gives it away. Your record fills in as you play.
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Jets 22
How to recognise combat aircraft
- A-10 Thunderbolt IIStraight wings, two big engine pods mounted high on the rear fuselage and twin tails at the very end.
- Chengdu J-20Large stealth fighter with canards just behind the cockpit, a long fuselage, twin canted tails and ventral fins.
- Eurofighter TyphoonDelta wing with canards well forward under the cockpit, single fin, chin intake.
- F-4 Phantom IIBig two-seat fighter with drooping tailplanes, upturned outer wing panels and two engines.
- F-15 EagleLarge twin-engine fighter with two tall vertical tails, a big flat wing and wide box intakes either side of the cockpit.
- F-22 RaptorStealth fighter with diamond-shaped wings, two outward-canted tails, large horizontal tailplanes and flat engine nozzles.
- F/A-18 HornetTwin engines, two outward-canted tails, long leading-edge extensions alongside the cockpit.
- MiG-31Large, long interceptor with big square intakes, two vertical tails and two very large engine nozzles.
- Panavia TornadoSwing-wing two-seater: the wings move between swept and spread, with a large single fin and two engines side by side.
- RafaleTwin-engine delta wing with canards close behind the cockpit, single fin, two intakes under the wing roots.
- Su-24Swing-wing bomber with side-by-side cockpit, rectangular intakes and a single tall tail.
- Su-25Straight, slightly swept wings, two engines in long nacelles along the fuselage sides and a long pointed nose.
- Su-27Twin fins, long tail sting between widely spaced engines, large swept wing and no canards.
- Su-30SMFlanker airframe with a two-seat cockpit and small canards ahead of the wing root.
- Su-34Flanker airframe with a wide, flat duck-bill nose for side-by-side seating and small canards ahead of the wings.
- Su-35STwin tail fins, long nose, large intakes under a broad flat fuselage.
- Su-57Stealth-shaped fighter with widely spaced engines, all-moving twin tails, large leading-edge extensions and a long, flat fuselage.
- Tu-22M3 BackfireSwing-wing bomber with two engines buried in the rear fuselage, huge rectangular intakes beside the cockpit and a tall fin.
- KF-21 BoramaeTwin-engine fighter with stealth-style faceted shaping, canted twin fins and diamond-shaped intakes, but with weapons carried outside.
- MiG-29Twin fins and twin engines with large intakes under a blended wing; shorter and stubbier than the Su-27 family.
- Shenyang J-16Two-seat Flanker: twin fins, widely spaced engines and a long tail sting, but no canards (unlike the Su-30SM); often seen with a grey radome and Chinese markings.
- Yak-130Small two-seat trainer with a stepped canopy, two engines under long wing-root extensions that reach forward to the cockpit and a straight-edged wing.
