{"id":410847,"date":"2026-04-22T18:00:17","date_gmt":"2026-04-22T08:00:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/active-fighter-jets-exceed-mach-2\/"},"modified":"2026-04-22T18:00:17","modified_gmt":"2026-04-22T08:00:17","slug":"6-active-fighter-jets-that-can-exceed-mach-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=410847","title":{"rendered":"6 Active Fighter Jets That Can Exceed Mach 2"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>During the early Cold War, speed was a design priority. However, after the United States reviewed extensive records from combat in the Vietnam War, it found that speeds of over Mach 1.8 were never used. Traveling at a high Mach number reduces an aircraft&#8217;s combat radius by burning through its fuel, while also making it less maneuverable. The <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\" data-id=\"58657\"style=\";  ;\" class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/tag\/f-35\/\"  >F-35<\/a><\/span> is the most advanced fighter jet around today, but its top design speed was reduced from Mach 1.8 to just Mach 1.6.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Several modern fighter jets can exceed Mach 2 at altitude, although the most advanced, like F-35 and J-35, sometimes max out below that.<\/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":[396,625,628,412],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-410847","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aircraft","category-f-16","category-fighter-jets","category-military"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/410847","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=410847"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/410847\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":410848,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/410847\/revisions\/410848"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=410847"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=410847"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=410847"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}