At Top Speed, This Is How Fighter Jets Like The F-35 Perform

Compared to the period from the first fighters up until the 1960s or 1970s, modern fighter jets’ top speeds have been deprioritized for decades. Between World War I and World War II and then into the early Cold War, it was largely believed and seen that faster was better and that future aircraft would set new speed records. But that changed with the Vietnam War and the introduction of stealth.