Deadliest Fighter

[HavocTM]

Sorry if this has been asked before, but I am curious in terms of pure kills (not ratio), what aircraft has shot down the most enemy planes by number?

I suspect it will be a WW2 plane but I am interested to see what plane killed the largest number of enemies.

My best guess is the F6F, but that is just a shot in the dark.

Any ideas?

[bozon]

I'll place my bet on the 109. Saw constant action from  before WWII till the end as 1st rate fighter.

Bozon

[Batz]

Not even close the 109s probrably got the most.........

[Furball]

I would also say 109. Fought in the spanish civil war, poland, low countries, BoF, BoB, western front, eastern front, the med. and N.Africa.  And i have probably missed some out.

[Rafe35]

F4U-4 is deadly - Shot down a few Japanese aircraft and none of them were shot down or damage by the Japanese before war ended.

F8F is probably alot deadliest fighter if they get to see WWII.

[hawker238]

Originally posted by Rafe35
F8F is probably alot deadliest fighter if they get to see WWII.

There's still a chance they will?

[LWACE]

lol hawker

[VWE]

In WWII I believe the F6F took 75% of all Navy kills...

[Karnak]

Bf109.  Numbers and duration of conflict win it both the deadliest and "most killed" awards.

No US, UK, JP or RU aircraft can compete in terms of sheer numbers.

For the aircraft of those nations to compete you need to switch to kill ratios.

[GScholz]

109s shot down more than twice the number of aircraft than any other fighter. It's also one of the longest serving WWII fighters having fought in the Spanish civil war, WWII, and the Israeli-Arab wars of the 1950s. It is also probably the most shot down fighter. Kill ratio wise the 109 scores high, perhaps 4 to 1 or so, but other fighters like the very late-war allied ones probably have better k/d.

[Karnak]

I doubt the 109's K/D is much above 1 for 1.  Frankly, I'd guess it is below 1 for 1.

[LWACE]

i dunno, probably so, beings in late ww2 they were gettin shot down left n right, but you also had the top aces who shot down many many many planes for just 1 man, i mean of course they were shot down or killed to, but not nearly as many as they brought down.

I think itd be near impossible to get any exact numbers with all the service 109s saw. Definetly the plane that killed and was killed the most though.

[MiloMorai]

For sure the 109 but it was also the most shot down fighter.

On April 9 1945 the LW only had 1300 servicable se fighters of which most likely 2/3 were 109s. There was maybe 11-1200 109s servicable/unservicable 'on the books' left out of the 33K or so manufactured. Even with the increase in production, the 1300 was ~200 less than in Jan. 1945.

[Bodhi]

Originally posted by GScholz
109s shot down more than twice the number of aircraft than any other fighter. It's also one of the longest serving WWII fighters having fought in the Spanish civil war, WWII, and the Israeli-Arab wars of the 1950s. It is also probably the most shot down fighter. Kill ratio wise the 109 scores high, perhaps 4 to 1 or so, but other fighters like the very late-war allied ones probably have better k/d.

During the early portion of the Hellcat's deployment, it's kill ratio was 37 to 1.  By the end of the war it was down to 19 to 1.  The highest KtD in the war.  The reason for the radical drop was owing to it's heavy employment as a jabo, and the subsequent losses associated in that role.

F6F.... there is no substitute.

[Batz]

The highest KtD in the war

What was the Finish Brewster's K/d.

Slappin' down betties and zeke's isnt that impressive to me...