Honors Engineering: Week Seven

This week I decided to look into Military based-planes. I wanted to see what the real differences between military planes and commercial planes were, if any, (other than the inside seating etc). I ended up discovering there are definite differences. I also discovered that "military airplanes" go far beyond just a singular definition. So I am going to break it down by sections a bit.

Fighter planes: There are several different forms of fighter planes, some of the most famous being attack air crafts, bombers, and fighters. Attack air crafts are used primarily by the Navy and the Marines. They are only somewhat considered to be a fighter plane because their air-air combat skills aren't very good. Bombers are typically heavier than attack air crafts. They are typically used, (obviously) for bombing the ground. Fighters are used specifically for destroying other planes and ground targets.

Non-Fighter planes: Reconnaissance air crafts, logistics air crafts, helicopters and experimental air crafts are all examples of non-fighter planes. Reconnaissance planes are used mainly for intelligence purposes. The detect submarines and other objects through radar. Logistics planes are used in order to transport people and supplies, helicopters serve a similar purpose except they also perform search and rescue. Lastly, experimental planes are used for testing purposes, both testing new technology as well as "testing the waters" for lack of better words.

There are also multi-purpose planes which can be used for transportation, fighting and other things.