Who was the first person to shoot down a jet fighter?
During this period, Captain Brown shot down an advanced German Me 262 jet fighter and a FW-190 fighter (he is credited as the first pilot to shoot down a jet). He was in a P-51 Mustang and shot down a jet flying 3 X’s faster. If flown to its strengths, the P-51 was more than capable of taking on the feared Me 262 on an equal footing, despite the differences in power and top speed. Indeed, the Mustang proved to be the Luftwaffe fighter arm’s nemesis.
What is Pakistan’s best fighter jet?
Jf-17 thunder is an advanced, light-weight, all weather, day / night multi-role fighter aircraft; developed as a joint venture between pakistan aeronautical complex (pac), kamra and chengdu aircraft industry corporation (cac) of china. It possesses excellent air-to-air and air-to-surface combat capabilities. With over 150 jf-17s in service, pakistan’s military still needs to replace more than 250 aging dassault mirages and chinese f-7s, a project expected to feature chinese jf-17, j-10c, and fc-31 jets.