Fighter aircraft are military aircraft primarily designed for air-to-air combat. They usually carry various weapons and missiles intended for air strikes and are used to achieve superiority over airspaces. While this list is intended for aircraft meant for aerial warfare, and does not include aircraft used for specific roles such as ground attack aircraft, bombers and trainers, there is some overlap in roles and designs. Multirole combat aircraft are utilized for various roles and fall under multiple categories.

The key performance features of a fighter apart from its firepower include its high speed and maneuverability. Fighter aircraft are sorted into generations, from one to five, based on technological level and advancements. The fighter aircraft are often designated by a specific naming convention based on the country of origin. The name usually consists of a letter prefix followed by a number, though there are names that do not follow this convention.

List

|ACAZ C.2||Belgium||Two-seat fighter||1926||Prototype|||| |- |Adamoli-Cattani fighter||Italy||||1918||Prototype|||| |- |AD Scout||UK||Zeppelin interceptor||1915||Prototype|||| |- |AEG D.I, D.II & D.III||Germany||||1917||Prototype|||| |- |AEG Dr.I||Germany||||1917||Prototype|||| |- |Aerfer Ariete||Italy||||1958||Prototype|||| |- |Aerfer Sagittario 2||Italy||Lightweight fighter||1956||Prototype|||| |- |Aero Ae 02||Czechoslovakia||||1920||Prototype|||| |- |Aero Ae 04||Czechoslovakia||||1921||Prototype|||| |- |Aero A.18||Czechoslovakia||||1923||Retired|||| |- |Aero A.19||Czechoslovakia||||1923||Prototype|||| |- |Aero A.20||Czechoslovakia||||1923||Prototype|||| |- |Aero A.102||Czechoslovakia||||1934||Prototype|||| |- |Aeromarine PG-1||US||Fighter-bomber||1922||Prototype|||| |- |Aeronautica Umbra Trojani AUT.18||Italy||||1939||Prototype|||| |- |AIDC F-CK-1 Ching-kuo||Taiwan||fighter-bomber||1989||Operational|||| |- |Airco DH.1||UK||Two-seat fighter||1915||Retired|| ca.|| |- |Airco DH.2||UK||||1915||Retired|||| |- |Airco DH.5||UK||||1916||Retired|||| |- |Albatros D.I||Germany||||1916||Retired|||| |- |Albatros D.II||Germany||||1916||Retired|||| |- |Albatros D.III||Germany||||1916||Retired|||| |- |Albatros D.IV||Germany||||1916||Prototype|||| |- |Albatros D.V & D.Va||Germany||||1917||Retired|||| |- |Albatros D.VI||Germany||||1918||Prototype|||| |- |Albatros D.VII||Germany||||1917||Prototype|||| |- |Albatros D.X||Germany||||1918||Prototype|||| |- |Albatros D.XI||Germany||||1918||Prototype|||| |- |Albatros D.XII||Germany||||1918||Prototype|||| |- |Albatros Dr.I||Germany||||1917||Prototype|||| |- |Albatros Dr.II||Germany||||1918||Prototype|||| |- |Albatros L 65||Germany||Fighter-reconnaissance ||1925||Prototype|||| |- |Albatros L 77v||Germany||Fighter-reconnaissance||1928||Prototype|||| |- |Albatros L 84||Germany||Two-seat fighter||1931||Prototype|||| |- |Albatros W.4||Germany||Floatplane fighter||1916||Retired|||| |- |Albree Pigeon-Fraser Pursuit||US||||1917||Prototype|||| |- |Alcock Scout||UK||||1917||Prototype|||| |- |Alekseyev I-211 & 215||USSR||||1947||Prototype|||| |- |Alter A.1||Germany||||1917||Prototype|||| |- |Ambrosini SAI.107 & 207||Italy||Lightweight fighter||1940||Retired|||| |- |Ambrosini SAI.403||Italy||Lightweight fighter||1943||Prototype|||| |- |Ambrosini SS.4||Italy||||1939||Prototype|||| |- |Amiot 110||France||Lightweight Jockey fighter||1928||Prototype|||| |- |Anatra Anadis||Russia||||1916||Prototype|||| |- |ANF Les Mureaux 114||France||Night fighter||1931||Prototype|||| |- |ANF Les Mureaux 130/Les Mureaux 3 & 4||France||Fighter-reconnaissance||1927||Prototype|||| |- |ANF Les Mureaux 170||France||||1932||Prototype|||| |- |ANF Les Mureaux 180||France||Two-seat fighter||1935||Prototype|||| |- |ANF Les Mureaux 190||France||Lightweight fighter||1936||Prototype|||| |- |Ansaldo A.1 Balilla||Italy||||1917||Retired|||| |- |Ansaldo ISVA||Italy||Floatplane fighter||1917||Retired|||| |- |Ansaldo SVA||Italy||Fighter-reconnaissance||1917||Retired|||| |- |Arado SD I||Germany||||1927||Prototype|||| |- |Arado SD II||Germany||||1929||Prototype|||| |- |Arado SD III||Germany||||1929||Prototype|||| |- |Arado SSD I||Germany||Floatplane fighter||1930||Prototype|||| |- |Arado Ar 64||Germany||||1930||Retired|||| |- |Arado Ar 65||Germany||||1931||Retired|||| |- |Arado Ar 67||Germany||||1933||Prototype|||| |- |Arado Ar 68||Germany||||1934||Retired|||| |- |Arado Ar 76||Germany||Lightweight fighter||1934||Retired|||| |- |Arado Ar 80||Germany||||1935||Prototype|||| |- |Arado Ar 197||Germany||Carrier fighter||1937||Prototype|||| |- |Arado Ar 240||Germany||Heavy fighter||1940||Prototype|||| |- |Arado Ar 440||Germany||Heavy fighter||1942||Prototype|||| |- |Armstrong Whitworth Ara||UK||||1919||Prototype|||| |- |Armstrong Whitworth Armadillo||UK||||1918||Prototype|||| |- |Armstrong Whitworth A.W.16||UK||||1930||Retired|||| |- |Armstrong Whitworth F.K.6||UK||Escort fighter||1916||Prototype|||| |- |Armstrong Whitworth F.K.9 & 10||UK||||1916||Prototype|||| |- |Armstrong Whitworth Siskin||UK||||1919||Retired|||| |- |Armstrong Whitworth Starling||UK||||1927||Prototype|||| |- |Armstrong Whitworth AW.35 Scimitar||UK||||1935||Retired|||| |- |Army Arsenal Model 3||Japan||||1927||Prototype||||Mikesh, 1990 |- |Arsenal-Delanne 10||France||||1941||Prototype|||| |- |Arsenal VG-30 - 39||France||Lightweight fighter||1938||Retired||+|| |- |Arsenal VB 10||France||Interceptor||1945||Prototype|||| |- |Arsenal VG 90||France||Carrier fighter||1949||Prototype|||| |- |Atlas Cheetah||South Africa||Fighter-bomber||1986||Operational|||| |- |Austin-Ball A.F.B.1||UK||||1917||Prototype|||| |- |Austin Osprey||UK||||1918||Prototype|||| |- |Austin Greyhound||UK||Two-seat fighter||1919||Prototype|||| |- |Avia BH-3||Czechoslovakia||||1921||Retired|||| |- |Avia BH-4||Czechoslovakia||||1922||Prototype|||| |- |Avia BH-6||Czechoslovakia||||1923||Prototype|||| |- |Avia BH-7||Czechoslovakia||||1923||Prototype|||| |- |Avia BH-8||Czechoslovakia||||1923||Prototype|||| |- |Avia BH-17||Czechoslovakia||||1924||Retired|||| |- |Avia BH-19||Czechoslovakia||||1924||Prototype|||| |- |Avia BH-21||Czechoslovakia||||1925||Retired|||| |- |Avia BH-23||Czechoslovakia||Night fighter||1926||Prototype|||| |- |Avia BH-33||Czechoslovakia||||1927||Retired|||| |- |Avia B-34||Czechoslovakia||||1932||Retired|||| |- |Avia B-534||Czechoslovakia||||1933||Retired|||| |- |Avia B-634||Czechoslovakia||||1936||Prototype|||| |- |Avia B-35||Czechoslovakia||||1938||Prototype|||| |- |Avia B-135||Czechoslovakia||||1939||Retired|||| |- |Avia S-199||Czechoslovakia||||1947||Retired|||| |- |Aviatik (Berg) D.I||Austria-Hungary||||1917||Retired|| ca.|| |- |Aviatik (Berg) D.II||Austria-Hungary||||1917||Retired|||| |- |Aviatik D.III||Germany||||1917||Prototype|||| |- |Aviatik D.VI||Germany||||1918||Prototype|||| |- |Aviatik D.VII||Germany||||1918||Prototype|||| |- |Aviméta 88||France||Night fighter||1927||Prototype|||| |- |Aviotehas PN-3||Estonia||Fighter-reconnaissance||1939||Prototype|||| |- |AVIS I||Hungary||||1933||Prototype|||| |- |AVIS II||Hungary||||1935||Prototype|||| |- |AVIS III||Hungary||||1935||Prototype|||| |- |AVIS IV||Hungary||||1937||Prototype|||| |- |Avro 504||UK||Bomber/trainer/fighter/Zeppelin interceptor||1913||Retired|||| |- |Avro 523 Pike||UK||Zeppelin interceptor||1916||Prototype|||| |- |Avro 527||UK||Fighter-reconnaissance||1916||Prototype|||| |- |Avro 530||UK||Two-seat fighter||1917||Prototype|||| |- |Avro 531 Spider||UK||||1918||Prototype|||| |- |Avro 566 Avenger||UK||||1926||Prototype|||| |- |Avro 584 Avocet||UK||Fleet fighter||1927||Prototype|||| |- |Avro Canada CF-100 Canuck||Canada||All-weather interceptor||1950||Retired|||| |- |Bachem Ba 349||Germany||VTO rocket interceptor||1945||Prototype|||| |- |BAJ IV||France||Two-seat fighter||1919||Prototype|||| |- |BAT Bantam||UK||||1918||Prototype|||| |- |BAT Basilisk||UK||||1918||Prototype|||| |- |Baykar Bayraktar Kızılelma||Turkey||Unmanned fighter||2023||Prototype|||| |- |Beardmore W.B.2||UK||||1917||Prototype|||| |- |Beardmore W.B.III||UK||Shipboard fighter||1917||Retired|||| |- |Beardmore W.B.IV||UK||Shipboard fighter|||1917||Prototype|||| |- |Beardmore W.B.V||UK||Shipboard fighter||1917||Prototype|||| |- |Beardmore W.B.XXVI||UK||Two-seat fighter||1925||Prototype|||| |- |Bell YFM-1 Airacuda||US||Interceptor||1937||Retired|||| |- |Bell XFL Airabonita||US||Carrier fighter||1940||Prototype|||| |- |Bell P-39 Airacobra||US||||1938||Retired|||| |- |Bell P-59 Airacomet||US||||1942||Retired|||| |- |Bell P-63 Kingcobra||US||||1942||Retired|||| |- |Bell XP-77||US||Lightweight fighter||1944||Prototype|||| |- |Bell XP-83||US||Escort fighter||1945||Prototype|||| |- |Berkmans Speed Scout||US||||1917||Prototype|||| |- |Bereznyak-Isayev BI-1||USSR||Interceptor rocket||1942||Prototype|||| |- |Berliner-Joyce XFJ||US||Carrier fighter||1930||Prototype|||| |- |Berliner-Joyce F2J||US||Carrier fighter||1933||Retired|||| |- |Berliner-Joyce XF3J||US||Carrier fighter||1934||Prototype|||| |- |Berliner-Joyce P-16||US||||1930||Retired|||| |- |Bernard SIMB AB 10||France||||1924||Prototype|||| |- |Bernard SIMB AB 12||France||||1926||Prototype|||| |- |Bernard SIMB AB 14||France||||1925||Prototype|||| |- |Bernard 15||France||||1926||Prototype|||| |- |Bernard 20||France||||1929||Prototype|||| |- |Bernard H.52||France||Floatplane fighter||1933||Prototype|||| |- |Bernard 74 & 75||France||||1931||Prototype|||| |- |Bernard H 110||France||Floatplane fighter||1935||Prototype|||| |- |Bernard 260||France||||1932||Prototype|||| |- |Bisnovat SK-2||USSR||||1940||Prototype|||| |- |Blackburn F.3||UK||||1934||Prototype||||Abandoned after problems during taxiing |- |Blackburn Firebrand||UK||Torpedo fighter||1942||Retired|||| |- |Blackburn Firecrest||UK||Strike fighter||1947||Prototype|||| |- |Blackburn Lincock||UK||Lightweight fighter||1928||Retired|||| |- |Blackburn Roc||UK||Turret fighter||1938||Retired|||| |- |Blackburn Skua||UK||Fighter/dive bomber||1937||Retired|||| |- |Blackburn Triplane||UK||Zeppelin interceptor||1917||Prototype|||| |- |Blackburn Turcock||UK||Interceptor/fleet fighter||1927||Prototype|||| |- |Blériot 118||France||Flying-boat fighter||1925||Prototype|||| |- |Blériot-SPAD S.41||France||||1922||Prototype|||| |- |Blériot-SPAD S.51||France||||1924||Retired||+|| |- |Blériot-SPAD S.60||France||Two-seat fighter||1926||Prototype|||| |- |Blériot-SPAD S.61||France||||1923||Retired||+|| |- |Blériot-SPAD S.70||France||||1927||Prototype|||| |- |Blériot-SPAD S.71||France||||1923||Prototype|||| |- |Blériot-SPAD S.72||France||||1923||Prototype|||| |- |Blériot-SPAD S.81||France||||1923||Retired||+|| |- |Blériot-SPAD S.91||France||Lightweight Jockey fighter||1927||Prototype|||| |- |Blériot-SPAD S.510||France||||1933||Retired|||| |- |Blériot-SPAD S.710||France||||1937||Prototype|||| |- |Bloch MB.150-157||France||||1937||Retired|||| |- |Blohm & Voss BV 40||Germany||Interceptor glider||1944||Prototype|||| |- |Blohm & Voss BV 155||Germany||High-altitude interceptor||1944||Prototype|||| |- |Boeing FB||US||Carrier fighter||1923||Retired|||| |- |Boeing F2B||US||Carrier fighter||1926||Retired|||| |- |Boeing F3B||US||Carrier fighter||1928||Retired|||| |- |Boeing F4B||US||Carrier fighter||1928||Retired|||| |- |Boeing XF5B||US||Carrier fighter||1930||Prototype|||| |- |Boeing XF6B||US||Fighter-bomber||1933||Prototype|||| |- |Boeing XF7B||US||Carrier fighter||1933||Prototype|||| |- |Boeing XF8B||US||Carrier fighter||1944||Prototype|||| |- |Boeing PW-9||US||||1923||Retired|||| |- |Boeing XP-4||US||||1927||Prototype|||| |- |Boeing XP-7||US||||1928||Prototype|||| |- |Boeing XP-8||US||||1928||Prototype|||| |- |Boeing XP-9||US||||1930||Prototype|||| |- |Boeing P-12||US||||1929||Retired|||| |- |Boeing XP-15||US||||1930||Prototype|||| |- |Boeing P-26 Peashooter||US||||1932||Retired|||| |- |Boeing P-29||US||||1934||Prototype|||| |- |Boeing Model 100||US||||1929||Retired|||| |- |Boeing Model 218||US||||1929||Retired|||| |- |Boeing Model 256||US||||1932||Retired|||| |-