But is it a turbojet or is it a turbofan now?

The Mirage is quite a bit smaller and lighter than the II or III. It might look long but its probably just the nose spike that makes it look similar in length; remove the spike and its considerably smaller.

From what I’ve read the Tu-28P and Tu-128 are completely different aircraft. Old websites cite them as one and the same but I’ve read Russian websites that showed them to be different in a similar way to how the Mirage 2000 is different than the Mirage III or the Su-27 is different than the T-10 prototypes. Although they look relatively indifferent the designs were improved to make them more effective and easier to produce.

The F-105 is longer by a considerably amount again if you ignore the nose spikes.

Edit: On second thought I think the F-105 is considerably out of size in the swept wing grouping. I’ll take a look at that tomorrow.

Edit#2: Done.

Nope. Its the same as ur normal single seater F-5.

I’ve looked at many F-5 pictures from A through G models, and yes the G is the F-20A, and in no picture of an F-5 was the nose anywhere relative to the size of this nose. The nose is much longer and deeper than all of the others, including the F-20A nose. Chances are they did fit some kind of different radar suite into it.

Couldn’t find a good buccaneer lineart to add, but added some other attack warplanes. The F-117 is large according to its specifications and is a couple feet longer than an F-15. I checked and double-checked its length. I do appreciate pointing out the A-6 misplaced by an EA-6. Keep up the criticism. It will only make it easier to improve.

Hot off the presses, tactical bomber comparison with some light bombers and fighter-bombers. The premise is that tactical bombers can mean quite a range of things from the past to the present.

Thanks for posting that article. In the size comparison thread I assumed the G8 was the same length of the G model. Nice to know they are about 11 feet different in length, it helps see their relative difference. I wonder if the G4 model was more like the G or G8 in length.

The Tu-22M is about 10 feet longer in relative size to the B-1B, but the Tu-160 is another thirty feet longer than the B-1B. If I put the two biggest jets together it really made it cramped for the others for some reason. But they are pretty close to real relative scale. It was getting late when I posted it. I’ll get out the ruler later and change it if its too much off scale.

Tu-22M3 136 feet (41.5 meters)
B-1B 146 feet (44.5 meters)
Tu-160 177 feet (54.1 meters)

Edit: I was off by about 10%. Good eye. Sometimes I use the ruler, other times I get lazy. 🙂

Also a thank you to Archibaald for pointing out the Mirage G was 55 feet long and the Mirage G8 was 66 feet in length.

*sheepish*

Thanks for the correction. I must of swapped them when replacing low res pics with better ones. Its amazing how much better some pictures are then others when they begin to grow relative in size.