Field guide
Every target in the game and what gives it away. Your record fills in as you play.
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Jets 9
How to recognise combat aircraft
- F-4 Phantom IIBig two-seat fighter with drooping tailplanes, upturned outer wing panels and two engines.
- 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.
- Su-30SMFlanker airframe with a two-seat cockpit and small canards ahead of the wing root.
- Tu-22M3 BackfireSwing-wing bomber with two engines buried in the rear fuselage, huge rectangular intakes beside the cockpit and a tall fin.
- Tu-95 BearHuge swept-wing bomber with four engines, each driving two contra-rotating propellers.
- Tu-160 BlackjackVery large white swing-wing bomber with four engines in paired pods under the wing roots.
- 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.
