F9F Cougar War Thunder American Navy Planes

The series went on to see extensive service throughout the Korean War (1950-1953) as a ground attack platform while scoring several air-to-air kills even against the famed Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-15 'Fagot' swept-wing, single-seat fighter.

Turbojet technology was being studied extensively during the period throughout Germany, Britain, the United States and the Soviet Union with only the British and the Germans bringing an operational-level quality fighter into service before the end of the war in 1945.įor the Grumman concern, who eventually earned the favor of the United States Navy when selling its collection of excellent fighter types - from the World War 2-era F4F 'Wildcat' and F6F 'Hellcat', to the Cold War-era F-14 'Tomcat' - the F9F 'Panther' proved its first jet-powered fighter and the first such notable aircraft to the USN. Swept-wings were already in operational service with German jet-powered aircraft late in the war, such as the famous Messerschmitt Me 262 fighter, and German scientists were hard at work in pushing the boundaries of high-speed flight even into the last days of the conflict. Even as the straight-winged F9F 'Panther' was beginning to take shape on the design board during the latter stages of World War 2, Grumman looked to developing a swept-wing jet-powered fighter.

F9F Cougar War Thunder American Navy Planes