Which plane do you guys think can do all three missions well?

Tall order....


In all honesty, the various Tornado variants are probably the answer for your question.

Number two would be the F-15 in it's multi-role variant.

Number three are the multitudes of Su-27 versions out there.

After that, it would come down to the best multi-purpose aircraft of all time so far.....the F-4 Phantom. Show me something that a current, modernized F-4 couldn't perform? Interceptor-of course it could. Dogfighter-not so much, but.... Attack/bomber platform with adequate AA refueling-uh, yeah...

Tornadoes were called flying elephants in Gulf War I for the ease of shooting them down.

F-15 is a good candidate indeed.

And looks like you and I agree on something Joe, I love the F-4, it was the back bone of our airforce for the 8 year war and we probably have some of THEE best F-4 pilots in Iran....RIP Abbas Doran...flew Crazy insane missions with his F-4, so successful and skilled that Saddam had a huge bounty on His head..when one day he finally was shot down, instead of ejecting and being caotured he rammed his f-4 into the nearest important Iraqi Airforce/military base.

.?.?.?.?Mehran.?.?

And all I was in ashes...


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Best Fighter F-22



Best Interceptor Mig-31



Best Bomber TU-160


B-1B


Best Overall F-15

Don’t forget about the SU-34 which is a newer and much more advanced aircraft and also is the stealthiest plane in service for Russia

Best Interceptor over land

Mig-31 Foxbat

Best Interceptor over sea

F-14D Tomcat

Best Fighter, period.

F/A-22 Raptor

Best Bomber

B-2 Spirit




"To secure the peace is to prepare for war." George Washington and later Metallica.

If the original question is which airplane can do all three missions well, there is no doubt the F/A-22 is the best.  It might not be as fast as the MiG-31 but it can maintain supersonic speeds for much longer, meaning it can intercept a far away target quicker. 

>>Tornadoes were called flying elephants in Gulf War I for the ease of shooting them down<<

This really pisses me off!!

Tornado pilots performed some of the most dangerous (very low-level anti-airfield and Suppression of Enemy Air Defence) missions of the entire campaign and all but one of the downed aircraft were lost on these missions.

Total Tornado losses...

17 January 1991 Tornado GR1 RAF 2 injured (minor) Hit by a surface-to-air missile
17 January 1991 Tornado GR1 RAF 2 killed Undetermined. Possibly hit by Anti-Aircraft-Artillery fire
19 January 1991 Tornado GR1 RAF 2 injured Shot down by a surface-to-air missile
22 January 1991 Tornado GR1 RAF 2 killed Undetermined. Possibly hit by Anti-Aircraft-Artillery fire
14 February 1991 Tornado GR1 RAF 1 killed Hit by a surface-to-air missile

So of the 50 GR1s deployed (not including the Tornado F3s which flew 700 sorties without loss!), 6 were lost, 5 due to enemy fire after 1500 operational sorties.

And now realising whose post it was.....

It's the general perception that pisses me off, Mehran jan. :P




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