Category:Fighter aircraft

A fighter is, in the sense of definition, an aircraft designed for warfare; and in military terms, it is generally an aeroplane built for dogfighting as opposed to heavier assaults assigned to its larger cousin, the bomber. During the Great War, fighters were usually lightweight single-engine, single-seat aircraft, usually bearing two or three sets of wings (though occasionally only one, as in the case of the Fokker Eindecker), with one or two heavy machine-gun mountings. Due to their primary purpose being dogfighting, bombs were rarely carried, and then were limited to two at most.