{"id":164615,"date":"2025-01-07T05:30:16","date_gmt":"2025-01-06T19:30:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/explained-6-generations-fighter-jets\/"},"modified":"2025-01-07T05:30:16","modified_gmt":"2025-01-06T19:30:16","slug":"explained-the-6-generations-of-fighter-jets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=164615","title":{"rendered":"Explained: The 6 Generations Of Fighter Jets"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Fifth-generation&#8221; and &#8220;sixth-generation&#8221; have become buzzwords for modern             <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\" data-id=\"58724\"style=\";  ;\" class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/tag\/fighter-jets\/\"  >fighter jets<\/a><\/span>. The concept of there being different generations of fighter jets appeared in the 1990s, and it should be stressed that there is no hard and fast definition of what it takes for a combat jet to belong to a particular generation of fighter jets (which is partly why there is         <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink-article\" data-id=\"2038052\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/advanced-5th-generation-fighters-close-quarters-dogfights-more-likely\/\" >debate about whether a given aircraft really is a fifth-gen fighter<\/a><\/span>). Fighter jets are placed into generations in an attempt to classify the major technological leaps in the development of the jet fighter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There are six generally accepted generations of fighter jets, with each leap frogging the previous generation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[12160,396,2026,628,408,412,423],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-164615","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-6th-generation-fighter-jet","category-aircraft","category-fifth-generation-fighter","category-fighter-jets","category-history","category-military","category-united-states"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164615","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=164615"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164615\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":164616,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164615\/revisions\/164616"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=164615"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=164615"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=164615"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}