| | The '''F-100 Super Sabre''', AKA the “Hun” (for hundred) was an American fighter and fighter-bomber and the first production fighter plane to achieve supersonic speed in level flight. It served with the [[US Air Force]] and some foreign countries. | | The '''F-100 Super Sabre''', AKA the “Hun” (for hundred) was an American fighter and fighter-bomber and the first production fighter plane to achieve supersonic speed in level flight. It served with the [[US Air Force]] and some foreign countries. |
| − | Like its predecessor, the F-86, the F-100 was a swept-wing design. A single [[Pratt & Whitney]] turbojet drove the plane with a maximum speed of 770 mph (Mach 1.01) at low level and 864 mph (Mach 1.2) at high altitude. It carried four 20-mm cannons in the nose (the last Air Force plane to do so) and had eight wing pylons for [[AIM-9 Sidewinder|Sidewinders]], fuel tanks, bombs, or [[AGM-12 Bullpup|Bullpup]] air-to-surface missiles. The first model, the F-100A, was a day fighter, but later models, the F-100C and D, were designed as fighter-bombers. The F-100D could carry nuclear bombs.<ref>''Military Aircraft Visual Guide'', ed. by David Donald, Aerospace Publishing Ltd., 2008</ref> Almost 2300 F-100s were produced in total, most of them D models. | + | Like its predecessor, the F-86, the F-100 was a swept-wing design. A single [[Pratt & Whitney]] turbojet drove the plane with a maximum speed of 770 mph (Mach 1.01) at low level and 864 mph (Mach 1.2) at high altitude. It carried four 20-mm cannons in the nose (the last Air Force plane to do so) and had eight wing pylons for [[AIM-9 Sidewinder|Sidewinders]], fuel tanks, bombs, or AGM-12 Bullpup air-to-surface missiles. The first model, the F-100A, was a day fighter, but later models, the F-100C and D, were designed as fighter-bombers. The F-100D could carry nuclear bombs.<ref>''Military Aircraft Visual Guide'', ed. by David Donald, Aerospace Publishing Ltd., 2008</ref> Almost 2300 F-100s were produced in total, most of them D models. |