Five Best and Worst fighters

[dragon53]

Link: https://www.yahoo.com/news/m/74e8b878-a ... orst).html

[ketelone]

No article about fighters. What are they?

[[CAT]CplSlade]

Gotta stop clicking on those dynamic pages, man. The content changes throughout the day and all you're doing is making them money hitting that click bait.

[dragon53]

Here's the corrected link.

Link: http://nationalinterest.org/blog/the-bu ... time-17690

[Axis Nightmare]

I only agree with a handful of the picks.
Apparently versatility wasn't a consideration factor.
Agree on the F-15. But how can you not include the P-51 or the Spitfire?
Was the Hellcat that made the list really better than the Corsair?

[[CAT]CplSlade]

Was the Hellcat that made the list really better than the Corsair?

Maybe because it shot down more enemy aircraft than any other Allied naval fighter of WWII?

[Axis Nightmare]

Was the Hellcat that made the list really better than the Corsair?

Maybe because it shot down more enemy aircraft than any other Allied naval fighter of WWII?

That certainly would qualitfy! Land based Corsairs didn't see a lot of enemy aircraft during most of 1944. By the time they got on carriers, the Hellcat had indeed racked up an impressive total.

5,271 total is the number I saw. More than twice the Corsair.

Corsairs, I believe were credited with 2,140 Japanese shot down. They also had the best kill ratio of all U.S. fighters I thought

I was considering versatility and longevity of the Corsair which this survey didn't seem to stress.