Greetings from Bulgaria! !I do not see any meaning in it because number, training, goals and tactics of the pilots who fly them are not the same. But my faworites fighters in WWII : Mitsubishi A6M zero Focke-Wulf Fw 190 Supermarine Spitfire Mesershmit 109G North American P-51 Mustang Lavosckin La-7 or (La-5FN) Yakovlev Yak-3 Yakovlev Yak-9 Lockheed P-38 Lightning Grumman f6f hellcat My most faworite is Lavosckin La-7
By Score it would be #1 F-6-F Hellcat ,#2 P-47 Thunderbolt, #3 Me109, #4 Spitfire, #5 Jap Zero,#6 P-51 Mustang, #7 FW190, #8 P-38 Lightning,#9 F4U, #10 F4F Wildcat - Just to take a wild guess
@97JoshFreak97 first "operational" (aka squadron strength) jet , first jet fighter to take flight was the Gloster G.40 in 1940 , this later became the F.6 / Thunderbolt / meteor which flew in early 1943 but only reached squadron strength after July 1944 flying as anti V1 patrols .
@Giselle76502: OK; Spitfire; Reg Mitchell's BRILLIANT fighter provided the top cover that stopped the 109's, kept the slow but wonderful Hurricane alive to destroy the He 111's, Ju 88's and the Me 110's. No Spit, no England. Period.
The P51B (not D, only 2 arrived in time for D-Day!) permitted the 6/6/44 invasion. Prevented the Calais based ultra-long ranged V-2s from annihilating Washington D.C., N.Y.C. by dirty conventional nuke. Shortened the war, prevented A Bombs From Adolf.
@paullubliner V2 Nukes, wow, Hitler had a lot more tricks up his sleeve than I thought, and yes, I do thinkHurri's and Spits put together are a great combonation :)
@Giselle76502 Aktually, they were two stage, I.C.B.M. V-10's then under development. The concrete domed launch sites were overrun immediately after the invasion began. He almost pulled it off. The way Hitler eliminated Rohm's SA's personal threat against him by use of Himmler's SS, may be construed as a look into a successful Nazi victory's eventual outcome. They might have concurred "Der Welt" but without doubt eventually consumed themselves. Yup, stone age all over again. P51B!
@Giselle76502 spits and hurricanes were fine in 1940 but the hurricane was obsolete as a fighter by 1941, the best combination of british aircraft was the spitfire and the tempest, spits working at high alt and tempest down low.
cool list. hurricane > spitfire tho? well it's your opinion. i'd have included the fw109, and the stuka for honorable mention even tho it's not a fighter, it was just so damn cool. esp. with those air trumpets fit under the wings to really scare the shit out of the poor poles and russians it was bombing. plus there was Ju 87G, with AA guns slung underneath the wings! i wonder if there were any air to air kills done with that version of the stuka
I think the reasons that this list doesn't have some of the best aircraft are that:
A. This is his opinion. He could have chosen any aircraft as his top ten if he wanted to.
B. It's hard to put all the best aircraft into a list of ten. If he put in, for example, the F4U Corsair or the Focke-Wulf 190, he would have to take out another aircraft, and then people would get angry because he didn't include the P-38 or the Spitfire or some other plane.
where is FW 190 ??? and the best prop plane of ww2 was fw190 D longnose . over and out.
p51 didnt "fuck" many me109...maybe when they landed, the p51 came and strafed the like they loved to do also on cows and everythg that moved...just ask old ppl here and they tell you. they have no reason for lying
german civilians always told the truth! they never smelled any of those death camps they lived near either, i'll bet. sorry america's later ww2 tech was so superior to germany's, it obviously still shames you. germany had the best tanks, i'll give the reich that.
I believe the uploader might have more correctly titled this video, "My Top Ten Personal Favorite Fighter Planes of WWII".
Because, he certainly has not placed the aircraft in order of their excellence.
He has also, glaringly, omitted the Fw-190, and the Me-262, yet included the Boulton Paul "Defiant", which might only make the, "Top 10 List of Really Disappointing Fighter Designs of WWII", if not,"All Time".
@Giselle76502 P51B had a merlin 26 engine the P51 A had the Alison engine , The RAF used it to great effect as close air support fitting it with 20mm cannons . The B introduced the 1 stage Supercharged merlin 22 ( same as spit V) ) and a malcom hood instead of the bird cage, The D got the upgrade to a merlin 26 2 speed 2 stage super charged engine . Both the B and D were great medium to high level fighters . The B lacks range compared to the D and looses power at 22K
@Giselle76502 The D uses it two stage Merlin to get power up to 30K but is heavier and less manoeuvrable than the B(C) due to the extra gun and ammo per wing . 1/2 of D production kept the high back and malcom hood , many RAF and USAAF pilots preferred the malcom as the tear drop shape would distort the rear vision some times putting a virtual blind spot . Where as with the malcom hood would still allow the pilot to see behind with only a small reduction is visibility
italian aircraft are forgotten....G.55 was a very underrated place. At high altitude it was just about the best. The Luftwaffe wanted to adopt it. Kurt Tank, the designer of the FW-190 said it was the best plane in the Axis inventory.
@sardosfish - also omitted a lot of under-rated Russian planes like the Lavochkin 7 and Yak 3. Also omitted is the fact that the Germans liked the French Dewoitine 500 better than the ME-109.
japanise planes had small cal guns and no armor or rubber seals fuel tanks i would rank the zero and 9th at best P-38 VS the Mosquito the mossy wins 57 mm cannon or tall boy bomb rockets better engines which the usa started to use on the P-51 D and the P51 vs Tempest Mk V Tempest wins 262 kills V1 rocket kills and it had a faster dive And the FW -190 was far improved then the 109 My top 2 are the spit ad the Lancaster bomber best thing out there till the B-29 ( bomb load)
The Zero should be included, afterall it was designed by Howard Hughes and the designes somehow falling into our enemies handes... They were fast and out maneuvered our planes, guess that's why wingmen were designated to combat these planes. They did however go up in flames when hit by tracers. Our planes were luck in that aspect, rubber bladder fuel tanks were utilized to avoid pilots being burned up. Good job on the vid...
this guy seriously lost himself: 1.Me-262 Hg 2.YP-80 (1st thunderjet) 3.Spitfire/Seafire MkIICwX 4.Bf-109 5. J2M5(Mitshubushi) 6.A6M(zero) 7.P-51 20AN(better version of Mustang) 8.Yak-9UT 9.Hurricane Mk2 10. P-39Q-1 dude...first of all...P-47, Fulmar and P-38 can't be here because they are ground attack planes not fighters...and it's not "Hurriane" it's Hurricane...
@FRforcing Both the P-47 and P-38 were used as escort fighters for 8th Air Force bombers. After the P-51 arrived in Europe most P-47s were, indeed, diverted to ground attack roles, but I don't think the P-38 ever was. It was the shorter ranged bomber escort throughout the war and was a very effect fighter plane in the Southwest Pacific. It was flown by both the top U.S. aces of the war.
Dude, really? The Zero didn't even make your list? You have to also consider the Me-262. The first and only jet fighter of WWII even though it was too late to make a difference. Or how about the Bf 109? It made more aerial kills than any other plane of WWII. And how can you rank the Spitfire about the Mustang? I realize this is only your opinion but I think you really should educate yourself on the planes of this era if they interest you enough to make a video like this.
Where is the FW190-the dreaded Butcher bird? And as for the Defiant? It was so useless as a day fighter it was taken out of front line service even before the B of B. Perhaps you should put up a list of the 10 most beautiful fighters ever built. The Spitfire IX was, in my humble opinion, beautiful from every angle and the most elegant aircraft of WW2.
....Hurricane on the top? Its capability as a fighter is a lot worse than the spitfire, and was mostly for ground attacking in the later part of the war.
But if you take ground attack capability into consideration, the IL-10 is the best fighter in WW2, no doubt. /sarcasm
@CNR4806 hate to say this but the hurricane MkIa was only 15MPH slower than the Spit MkIa , could dive up to 470Mph and still maintain control where as spit would loose aileron control at 450Mph . The gun layout on the hurricane was better with 4 guns in a tight placement in an inboard situation of the wing. it had far better handling than the spit . A more stable gun platform tighter turning and better at altitude . It also rolled and changed direction faster than the spit .
the p 51 and later the p47 took the fight to Berlin, broke Germany's back. Goering, when he saw p51's over Berlin stated the war is lost. the spits and hurricanes did well to guard London. in reality Hitler gave up when he had his game nearly one. so i guess the spits and hurricanes played some physiological role "whilst" the p51 and p47 merely shot down me109's and me190's over Berlin.
i like a lot of your choices, and it's not always about the raw numbers comparison between planes, as a comment said between the hurricane and the mustang, the hurricane was an immensely useful aircraft and effectively won the battle of Britain. And yes the paul bolton defiant is also a big favourite of mine, but sadly was obsolete and a death trap for it's gunner, nice looking plane thou, scored some surprisingly good results against the messerschmitt 109s as they didn't realise the turret ! :D
I believe the Me-262 was the Top plane of the war, But the only reason they were being taken down by the Allied Planes with a Slightly less than equivalent fight- were because of the fact that Germany was running out of Very Experienced Pilots at that Point in the War
@ForgottenWolf88 I somewhat agree, but mind, you this was the first operational Jet of WWII, and had many prbloms because it was so complex (In my opinion) where as the British Meteor was more simple, this is the reason why Glosters aircraft was more sucsesful. But yea, I guess the 262 deserves a place in the history books :)
@ForgottenWolf88 The 262 was a phenomenal aircraft but suffered from a few drawbacks. It went through fuel like milk through a tall cow and, like any other aircraft was vulnerable during take-off and landing. That's when a great many of them were shot down. Also, Hitler misused them early on as bombers. As for their pilots, the men who flew the jet were the best the Germans had, including Adolph Galland, Walter Nowotny, Heinz Bar, Gerhard Barkhorn, Macky Steinhoff and Walter Krupinski.
@ForgottenWolf88 opps mustangs were shooting what was left out of the skies!!!The Mustang Was The Best Fighter of WWII thats the bottom line deal with it!??
well done on hurricane at 1 but p38 over mosquito which didnt get a look in and fulmar was a an obomonation but like you said just your personel choice thanks for posting.
I'd definately have to argue that the Defiant was hardly in the top ten based on its combat record. They didn't last long and were withdrawn from service very quickly. other that that, I would argue the ranking of some of the others, like the Mustang, and would ask where the Me-262 was.
I'm not American, but the P51 is well known to be the top fighter plane of the war. The hurricane was no where near as good as the spitfire, either. You may see it has many kills during the battle of Britain, but that's because they got to shoot down the bombers while the Spitfires tangled with the ME 109's. I also think the zero and corsair should be in this list.
@442hoeky Mind you, I also like the Hurricane because of its imence firepower (On later models) and its ability to take an critical amount of damage, get fixed up and be in the air again in a short period of time. Not to mention that briatins greatest fighter aces, Douglas baded and Bob Stanford tuck flew, this amazeing machine, I even have a download for them in my flight simulator.
@Giselle76502 the reason it took a short period of time to fix was because of the wooden frame, all they needed to do was patch a bit of cloth over the area f damage, whereas on aluminuim planes the whole panel that was damaged had to be replaced.
@442hoeky Not true the hurricane scored higher fighter kills percentage wise than the spitfire too . the hurricane also scored more kills in the DAF . It only had one real drawback the tick wing which was cured in the Typhoon and later Tempest fighters . when a dog fight starts you don't think oh i won't fire it's not a bomber . Me 109 pilots feared the hurricane more than the spitfire as it could hang on to the six of a 109 better than a spitfire.
@edmundscycles during the battle of britain the hurricane had a more kills purely because the hurricane attacked the bombers while the spits tangled with the me-109's, also there were far more hurricanes in service then.
People here don't understand the major strength that the P-51 had that truly made it a top aircraft. German testers noted this strength when flying captured models.
Where a spitfire or FW-190 needed a great pilot to bring out its best performance, the P-51 was so user friendly, a relative novice pilot could fly like an ace after a short time flying in this wonderful plane.
the thing about the spit was it was a 'sports car' where as the hurri was a sedan good gun platform and reliable the 51 was a flying gas tank ergo 'long legged' and when they put the paddle props on the 47 it could out climb anything and nothing could out dive it the later model 38s could tail gate all of em but the allison engine was a bummer..imagine that one with merlin engines which was about the best and of course the 262 set the new standard
@jonastti The P-51 wasnt anything special except for the role of long range bomber escort. It was no better than the later Spitfires when it came to dogfights.
P51 at #4...You gotta be kidding me. Wow...Ok, put 3 p51's up against all the other aircraft at the same time. If you are a betting man I have a feeling you would think long and hard about betting against the mustangs.
@class37trash Yes I like some american stuff, but its no match for our spiffing good aircraft. The Hurri for example is tough, easdy to repair, and exteremly versitile. Althogh I do think the Mustang is a good plane, it comes nowhere near the good old Hurricane. I expect your from the UK to, yes?
@class37trash did you know that the spitfire and the hurricane are variants of the p-40 warhawk but when the brits modded the p-40 into a spitfire and the spitfire was modded into into a p-51 by the u.s. wich evoled into a p-38 which became the idea of the jet me262 then the first u.s. jet the p-80 wich became jets today so the britsh and the u.s. made the best weapons in history thanks britan
The defiants and Fulmars are considered failures by most aviation historians and I agree. The Corsair, the Hellcat, the Oscar, the FW-190, and MiG-3 were all far better. Heck, I'd even put the P-40 above those two duds.
Well, yeah, I'll be honest, the Fulmar and Daffy are flopps but they had they're days, I like the Defiant cause, like the Hurricane, it was the true savour of Great Britain.
@antebigon I don't know about you, but the Hurricane is tough, repairible, can pack a helluva punch and, its versitile, not to mention that some of the RAF's aces like Bob Stanford Tuck and Douglas Badder flew Hurricanes. Obselete though it my be, its AWSOME!!!!!
your view .... p51 p38 fw 190 would be my top 3 zero was also one of the lightest and most manouverable.early spiotfires were barbi and couldnt fly upside down
But please don't forget that the Hurris where usually targetted at the (slower, clumsier) bombers while the German fighters were left for the Spitfires.
Where is the damn Foker Wolf FW-190 The legendary aircraft which was copied by the allied nations and to this day it was one of the best aircraft that took to the skies in WW-II ????????? This list is a crap !! And not to mention Me262 against which B-17's were sitting ducks !!!
@52outbound I agree it was a very advanced and Innovative aircraft. when it was first built it was faster and had a longer range than any other fighter.
hell yeah. with dudes like Bader and Hartmann and all those awesome pilots, to a certain extent it didn't matter what plane they were in, they were just so good at flying. they would still get kills on aircraft better than theirs.
How could the defiant beat out the p-38 when Americas top WW2 aces flew p-38s? the defiant was just a slow piece of shit that got dominated by the luftwaffa. and how could the hurricane beat out the 109 when the greatest Ace of all time flew a 109?
@zylawyrk I like the Hurricane cause it can take a crud loada punishment and come back home in one peice, before it was repaired and back in the sky within a short period of time, like the P-47.
@Giselle76502 yeah the spit takes all the credit for saving england in the battle of britain when the majority of the planes in service was the hurricane. not that the spit sucks, but the poor hurricane got sidelined.
The Hurricane did indeed account for more scores during the Battle of Britain, but only because the 'more agile & versatile' Spitfires were tasked with tackling the formidable ME/BF109s while Hurricanes were assigned to wallop the slow, cumbersome bombers!
As for the 'more versatile' suggestion as regards the Hurricane, it could take more of a beating than the thoroughbred Spitfire, but 24 marks of spitfire, countless engine upgrades and fighting in every arena...!?
@Eoinmcampbell there were only 8 marks of the spitfire in WWII . MkIa, MkIIa , MkV a,b,c MkVII , MkVIII , MkIX , MKXII , MKXIV . most others were photo recons starting with the MkVI which became the PR.IX MkIII was the seafire MkI The MKX was the seafire IILf , spitfire XI was the seafire MkIII.LaF The spit XVI was just packard built merlin 266 with a chain driven supercharger . Mk's XV - 19 were all photo recon or test rigs . The MK IV became the MK XII
@52outbound Who? Bong? he flew in the pacific were the japanese didn't use many large bombers. I don't know were you heard that a dead person counts as a kill a kill counts as one aircraft shot down, theres no way to tell how many people you hit inside a large plane.
@Giselle76502 the guy hiding under your bed disliked. O_o JK lol, just messin' with ya. Don't take dislikes personally, though. But if they are being morons about why they disliked in the comments, then feel free to block the user from your account.
nasoarr 4 days ago
Omitting the best fighter plane of the war, the ME262? Or arguably most significant (Ilyushin Il 2 Shturmovik) ?
BKK19 5 days ago
not my personal order but they are all good
japcarsuck 6 days ago
so cool
codBomaster3 1 week ago
By Score it would be #1 F-6-F Hellcat ,#2 P-47 Thunderbolt, #3 Me109, #4 Spitfire, #5 Jap Zero,#6 P-51 Mustang, #7 FW190, #8 P-38 Lightning,#9 F4U, #10 F4F Wildcat - Just to take a wild guess
flyinbiker2001 1 week ago
Ok thumbs up if you think the spitfire should be number one.
minecraft5557 1 week ago
The Mustang: American with a British engine and it was a decisive weapon. Later versions were perfection.
athame57 1 week ago
i bet the last 3 were hard to decide
boeing747ba 2 weeks ago
And were Як 1,Як1б,Як 3,Як 7,Як 7....Як 9 .Миг 1.3.И-15,16.и 153L.agg 1,3,La 5,La 5 FN,La 7 Foooo!....Rining for mi in Russia
Bruno47602 2 weeks ago
Me 262??
The first jet in ww2
97JoshFreak97 3 weeks ago
@97JoshFreak97 first "operational" (aka squadron strength) jet , first jet fighter to take flight was the Gloster G.40 in 1940 , this later became the F.6 / Thunderbolt / meteor which flew in early 1943 but only reached squadron strength after July 1944 flying as anti V1 patrols .
edmundscycles 1 week ago
LOL!!! What a load of British Propaganda!
paullubliner 3 weeks ago 2
@paullubliner Yes, I'M BRITSH!
Giselle76502 2 weeks ago
@Giselle76502: OK; Spitfire; Reg Mitchell's BRILLIANT fighter provided the top cover that stopped the 109's, kept the slow but wonderful Hurricane alive to destroy the He 111's, Ju 88's and the Me 110's. No Spit, no England. Period.
The P51B (not D, only 2 arrived in time for D-Day!) permitted the 6/6/44 invasion. Prevented the Calais based ultra-long ranged V-2s from annihilating Washington D.C., N.Y.C. by dirty conventional nuke. Shortened the war, prevented A Bombs From Adolf.
paullubliner 2 weeks ago
@paullubliner V2 Nukes, wow, Hitler had a lot more tricks up his sleeve than I thought, and yes, I do thinkHurri's and Spits put together are a great combonation :)
Giselle76502 1 week ago
@Giselle76502 Aktually, they were two stage, I.C.B.M. V-10's then under development. The concrete domed launch sites were overrun immediately after the invasion began. He almost pulled it off. The way Hitler eliminated Rohm's SA's personal threat against him by use of Himmler's SS, may be construed as a look into a successful Nazi victory's eventual outcome. They might have concurred "Der Welt" but without doubt eventually consumed themselves. Yup, stone age all over again. P51B!
paullubliner 1 week ago
@Giselle76502 spits and hurricanes were fine in 1940 but the hurricane was obsolete as a fighter by 1941, the best combination of british aircraft was the spitfire and the tempest, spits working at high alt and tempest down low.
pramboy09 1 week ago
fokker g-1
PWNarmored 3 weeks ago
FOKKER G-1 !
PWNarmored 3 weeks ago
cool list. hurricane > spitfire tho? well it's your opinion. i'd have included the fw109, and the stuka for honorable mention even tho it's not a fighter, it was just so damn cool. esp. with those air trumpets fit under the wings to really scare the shit out of the poor poles and russians it was bombing. plus there was Ju 87G, with AA guns slung underneath the wings! i wonder if there were any air to air kills done with that version of the stuka
defchoad 4 weeks ago
@defchoad Dispite being slow and heavy, the JU-87 is a great plane, yes, it deserves a place in the history books
Giselle76502 4 weeks ago
@Giselle76502 Thats what I call a fair brit ;)
DenverYellowStone 2 weeks ago
@DenverYellowStone Thanks mate XD
Giselle76502 2 weeks ago
@defchoad they were AA guns they were 37mm Tank guns
armymanj 2 weeks ago
I think the reasons that this list doesn't have some of the best aircraft are that:
A. This is his opinion. He could have chosen any aircraft as his top ten if he wanted to.
B. It's hard to put all the best aircraft into a list of ten. If he put in, for example, the F4U Corsair or the Focke-Wulf 190, he would have to take out another aircraft, and then people would get angry because he didn't include the P-38 or the Spitfire or some other plane.
Crazylegs973 1 month ago
The spitfire is above the hurricane and the mustang above the 109 and the hurricane
cloudskipper40 1 month ago
where is FW 190 ??? and the best prop plane of ww2 was fw190 D longnose . over and out.
p51 didnt "fuck" many me109...maybe when they landed, the p51 came and strafed the like they loved to do also on cows and everythg that moved...just ask old ppl here and they tell you. they have no reason for lying
MrWilhelm76 1 month ago
@MrWilhelm76
german civilians always told the truth! they never smelled any of those death camps they lived near either, i'll bet. sorry america's later ww2 tech was so superior to germany's, it obviously still shames you. germany had the best tanks, i'll give the reich that.
defchoad 4 weeks ago
I believe the uploader might have more correctly titled this video, "My Top Ten Personal Favorite Fighter Planes of WWII".
Because, he certainly has not placed the aircraft in order of their excellence.
He has also, glaringly, omitted the Fw-190, and the Me-262, yet included the Boulton Paul "Defiant", which might only make the, "Top 10 List of Really Disappointing Fighter Designs of WWII", if not,"All Time".
skeilak 1 month ago 3
@skeilak Ok I admit these are my personal fovourites, but for the love of god, ITS THE PILOT, NOT THE PLANE!!!!!!
Giselle76502 1 month ago
@Giselle76502
Well, I think you could only say that, if the pilots were in at least roughly, comparable aircraft.
.
Also, why hasn't anyone named the Chance Voight F4U Corsair, the Grumman F8F Bearcat? Both were truly outstanding fighter planes.
skeilak 1 month ago
your obviously a POM...
oscarthegrouch68 1 month ago
My top 10 are #1.ME 262, #2.Spitfire,#3.P-51, #4.FW-190,#5.Zero,#6.Me 109,#7.Hellcat,#8.Hurricane,#9.Wildcat,#10.Ki-61
crystalandjoel123 1 month ago
Where's the Focke Wulf? What was your criteria for your decisions?
Clearly not based on operational success or input from pilots who flew them.
shooter963 1 month ago
and where is the FW190???
MyllekeBas 1 month ago
Here's mine : 10-He-111 9-Spitfire 8-Focke Wulf 7-Bf-109g14 6-Me 262 5-F4U 4-i dunno 3- i dunno 2- i dunno 1JU-87b3 :D
12ItsMine 1 month ago
Pretty sure the p51 fucked ohhhhh alot of 109s in the war so i dont know how it got in front of the p51
wsrcflyer 1 month ago
@wsrcflyer P51 with Rolls-Royce Viper engine (Spits engine) With Allison (american engine) was scrap
ms2cristian 1 month ago
@ms2cristian Not Viper, the P-51D had a MERLIN engine, but yeah, P-51B's were only good at low level and its alison engine wasd very unreliable
Giselle76502 1 month ago
@Giselle76502 P51B had a merlin 26 engine the P51 A had the Alison engine , The RAF used it to great effect as close air support fitting it with 20mm cannons . The B introduced the 1 stage Supercharged merlin 22 ( same as spit V) ) and a malcom hood instead of the bird cage, The D got the upgrade to a merlin 26 2 speed 2 stage super charged engine . Both the B and D were great medium to high level fighters . The B lacks range compared to the D and looses power at 22K
edmundscycles 1 week ago
@Giselle76502 The D uses it two stage Merlin to get power up to 30K but is heavier and less manoeuvrable than the B(C) due to the extra gun and ammo per wing . 1/2 of D production kept the high back and malcom hood , many RAF and USAAF pilots preferred the malcom as the tear drop shape would distort the rear vision some times putting a virtual blind spot . Where as with the malcom hood would still allow the pilot to see behind with only a small reduction is visibility
edmundscycles 1 week ago
Mustang P-51 is the number ONE.
guinand100 1 month ago
italian aircraft are forgotten....G.55 was a very underrated place. At high altitude it was just about the best. The Luftwaffe wanted to adopt it. Kurt Tank, the designer of the FW-190 said it was the best plane in the Axis inventory.
sardosfish 1 month ago
@sardosfish - also omitted a lot of under-rated Russian planes like the Lavochkin 7 and Yak 3. Also omitted is the fact that the Germans liked the French Dewoitine 500 better than the ME-109.
shooter963 1 month ago
@shooter963
The French Dewoitine 500 / 501, were open cockpit aircraft, with fixed landing gear, dating from the mid-1930's.
Are you sure that is the aircraft you're thinking of? They were clearly not superior to the Me-109, even though they both dated from the same era.
Perhaps you meant the later Dewoitine D.520/HD.780, which was at least a modern aircraft?
skeilak 1 month ago
defiant??fulmar??
sardosfish 1 month ago
where is macchi c205 folgore? and the best plane was p-51 mustang
riczen89 1 month ago
Lol I like your #1. I can't agree but I'd take a Hurricane over a Spitfire.
Daehawk 1 month ago
@Daehawk Thanks dude :)
Giselle76502 1 month ago
I can see what side of the pond "your" from,...Spit and hurricane number one and two....yea right!
Gixxxerdan 1 month ago
@Gixxxerdan I can guess which side of the pond YOUR from XD
Giselle76502 1 month ago
japanise planes had small cal guns and no armor or rubber seals fuel tanks i would rank the zero and 9th at best P-38 VS the Mosquito the mossy wins 57 mm cannon or tall boy bomb rockets better engines which the usa started to use on the P-51 D and the P51 vs Tempest Mk V Tempest wins 262 kills V1 rocket kills and it had a faster dive And the FW -190 was far improved then the 109 My top 2 are the spit ad the Lancaster bomber best thing out there till the B-29 ( bomb load)
freakyflow 1 month ago
Were is the Fw 190 and Ta 152??? And the A6m Zero??? And The Russians??
¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿The number one the hurricane???????
javiag74 1 month ago
P-59 never used for the War, probably it could match Me-262. F-80 was designed for Me-262, but it came too late.
kuluku 1 month ago
The Zero should be included, afterall it was designed by Howard Hughes and the designes somehow falling into our enemies handes... They were fast and out maneuvered our planes, guess that's why wingmen were designated to combat these planes. They did however go up in flames when hit by tracers. Our planes were luck in that aspect, rubber bladder fuel tanks were utilized to avoid pilots being burned up. Good job on the vid...
FJvoodoo 1 month ago
this guy seriously lost himself: 1.Me-262 Hg 2.YP-80 (1st thunderjet) 3.Spitfire/Seafire MkIICwX 4.Bf-109 5. J2M5(Mitshubushi) 6.A6M(zero) 7.P-51 20AN(better version of Mustang) 8.Yak-9UT 9.Hurricane Mk2 10. P-39Q-1 dude...first of all...P-47, Fulmar and P-38 can't be here because they are ground attack planes not fighters...and it's not "Hurriane" it's Hurricane...
FRforcing 1 month ago
@FRforcing Both the P-47 and P-38 were used as escort fighters for 8th Air Force bombers. After the P-51 arrived in Europe most P-47s were, indeed, diverted to ground attack roles, but I don't think the P-38 ever was. It was the shorter ranged bomber escort throughout the war and was a very effect fighter plane in the Southwest Pacific. It was flown by both the top U.S. aces of the war.
famospilot 1 month ago
@famospilot Richard Ira Bong and Thomas McGuire are the Top American Aces to date.
USSWISCONSIN64 1 month ago
Weres the A6M Zero
payton34best 1 month ago
Dude, really? The Zero didn't even make your list? You have to also consider the Me-262. The first and only jet fighter of WWII even though it was too late to make a difference. Or how about the Bf 109? It made more aerial kills than any other plane of WWII. And how can you rank the Spitfire about the Mustang? I realize this is only your opinion but I think you really should educate yourself on the planes of this era if they interest you enough to make a video like this.
whoibuoy 2 months ago
Where is the FW190-the dreaded Butcher bird? And as for the Defiant? It was so useless as a day fighter it was taken out of front line service even before the B of B. Perhaps you should put up a list of the 10 most beautiful fighters ever built. The Spitfire IX was, in my humble opinion, beautiful from every angle and the most elegant aircraft of WW2.
TheRunereaper 2 months ago
....Hurricane on the top? Its capability as a fighter is a lot worse than the spitfire, and was mostly for ground attacking in the later part of the war.
But if you take ground attack capability into consideration, the IL-10 is the best fighter in WW2, no doubt. /sarcasm
CNR4806 2 months ago
@CNR4806 hate to say this but the hurricane MkIa was only 15MPH slower than the Spit MkIa , could dive up to 470Mph and still maintain control where as spit would loose aileron control at 450Mph . The gun layout on the hurricane was better with 4 guns in a tight placement in an inboard situation of the wing. it had far better handling than the spit . A more stable gun platform tighter turning and better at altitude . It also rolled and changed direction faster than the spit .
edmundscycles 1 week ago
Emmm. Hurr top 1? Lol. =)
Where's russian planes?
alaguta 2 months ago
@alaguta The Ruskis has Lend leas Hurri's :)
Giselle76502 1 month ago
@Giselle76502 We had our great Russian aircraft. This is a MiG-3, Lavochkin La-5, Lavochkin La-7, Ilyushin Il-2.
4x86 1 month ago
@alaguta Down
ms2cristian 1 month ago
@alaguta Down see Wikipedia
Constantin Cantacuzino (60), Ion Dicezare (5), Teodor Greceanu (27), Alexandru Şerbănescu (47), Ion Milu (45)
ms2cristian 1 month ago
@alaguta Down see Wikipedia
Constantin Cantacuzino (60), Teodor Greceanu (27), Alexandru Şerbănescu (47), Ion Milu (45) 5 pilots, 179 russian planes most Il2 & La5
ms2cristian 1 month ago
P51, spitfire and zero type is top 3 for sure.
war3scecfang 2 months ago
the p 51 and later the p47 took the fight to Berlin, broke Germany's back. Goering, when he saw p51's over Berlin stated the war is lost. the spits and hurricanes did well to guard London. in reality Hitler gave up when he had his game nearly one. so i guess the spits and hurricanes played some physiological role "whilst" the p51 and p47 merely shot down me109's and me190's over Berlin.
cooldaddyy 2 months ago
i like a lot of your choices, and it's not always about the raw numbers comparison between planes, as a comment said between the hurricane and the mustang, the hurricane was an immensely useful aircraft and effectively won the battle of Britain. And yes the paul bolton defiant is also a big favourite of mine, but sadly was obsolete and a death trap for it's gunner, nice looking plane thou, scored some surprisingly good results against the messerschmitt 109s as they didn't realise the turret ! :D
Tonesy99 2 months ago
NO, MY LIST ES: MUSTANG, ME-262, P-47, P-48, ZERO, BF-109, SPITFIRE, F-6 HELLCAT, F4F- WILDCAT, BF-190
tirpitzvsiowa 2 months ago
See the Modern Car Airconditioning Multi-Propeller Blades to know the Wind Control difference.
benny8hill 2 months ago
totalin outin ofin orderin
TheDecepticonsrule 2 months ago
I believe the Me-262 was the Top plane of the war, But the only reason they were being taken down by the Allied Planes with a Slightly less than equivalent fight- were because of the fact that Germany was running out of Very Experienced Pilots at that Point in the War
ForgottenWolf88 2 months ago 2
@ForgottenWolf88 I somewhat agree, but mind, you this was the first operational Jet of WWII, and had many prbloms because it was so complex (In my opinion) where as the British Meteor was more simple, this is the reason why Glosters aircraft was more sucsesful. But yea, I guess the 262 deserves a place in the history books :)
Giselle76502 2 months ago
@ForgottenWolf88 The 262 was a phenomenal aircraft but suffered from a few drawbacks. It went through fuel like milk through a tall cow and, like any other aircraft was vulnerable during take-off and landing. That's when a great many of them were shot down. Also, Hitler misused them early on as bombers. As for their pilots, the men who flew the jet were the best the Germans had, including Adolph Galland, Walter Nowotny, Heinz Bar, Gerhard Barkhorn, Macky Steinhoff and Walter Krupinski.
warwolfii 2 months ago
@warwolfii Gloster Meteor>ME262
ms2cristian 1 month ago
@ForgottenWolf88 opps mustangs were shooting what was left out of the skies!!!The Mustang Was The Best Fighter of WWII thats the bottom line deal with it!??
mikekobbler 1 month ago
@ForgottenWolf88 the me-262 had the worst turning radius of the war and did not have the best weaponry
ww2guy100 1 month ago
@ForgottenWolf88
Yep, the ME-262. The take off and turning is what got them...and yes no experienced pilots
1WildlandFirefighter 2 weeks ago
well done on hurricane at 1 but p38 over mosquito which didnt get a look in and fulmar was a an obomonation but like you said just your personel choice thanks for posting.
tc030564 2 months ago
I'd definately have to argue that the Defiant was hardly in the top ten based on its combat record. They didn't last long and were withdrawn from service very quickly. other that that, I would argue the ranking of some of the others, like the Mustang, and would ask where the Me-262 was.
Coulterr 2 months ago
how come this video has more dislikes than likes, its an interesting list and at the end of the day its your view.
militarymoddeling 2 months ago
I'm not American, but the P51 is well known to be the top fighter plane of the war. The hurricane was no where near as good as the spitfire, either. You may see it has many kills during the battle of Britain, but that's because they got to shoot down the bombers while the Spitfires tangled with the ME 109's. I also think the zero and corsair should be in this list.
442hoeky 2 months ago
@442hoeky Mind you, I also like the Hurricane because of its imence firepower (On later models) and its ability to take an critical amount of damage, get fixed up and be in the air again in a short period of time. Not to mention that briatins greatest fighter aces, Douglas baded and Bob Stanford tuck flew, this amazeing machine, I even have a download for them in my flight simulator.
Giselle76502 2 months ago
@Giselle76502 the reason it took a short period of time to fix was because of the wooden frame, all they needed to do was patch a bit of cloth over the area f damage, whereas on aluminuim planes the whole panel that was damaged had to be replaced.
militarymoddeling 2 months ago
@Giselle76502 It was a great plane. High fire power and good survivability are always good characteristics of a fighter plane!
442hoeky 2 months ago
@442hoeky Not true the hurricane scored higher fighter kills percentage wise than the spitfire too . the hurricane also scored more kills in the DAF . It only had one real drawback the tick wing which was cured in the Typhoon and later Tempest fighters . when a dog fight starts you don't think oh i won't fire it's not a bomber . Me 109 pilots feared the hurricane more than the spitfire as it could hang on to the six of a 109 better than a spitfire.
edmundscycles 1 week ago
@edmundscycles during the battle of britain the hurricane had a more kills purely because the hurricane attacked the bombers while the spits tangled with the me-109's, also there were far more hurricanes in service then.
pramboy09 1 week ago
Where's the me 262 and me 109. Or the Yak and also the Zero
emporatikatrox 2 months ago
No Russian planes here? And no ME-262? I know what I'd prefer to have flown in...
flankspeed 3 months ago
@flankspeed The Me-262 came in way to late to make any significant effect on the war plus a few rounds in the jet engines and its night night.
And the Soviets tbh the only very good soviet plane was the Ilyushin Il-2 but it was a CAS not a fighter
thebritish25 3 months ago
@flankspeed those where never used to fight in the war i dont think. they didnt want to risk it
MrShawzyxx 2 months ago
People here don't understand the major strength that the P-51 had that truly made it a top aircraft. German testers noted this strength when flying captured models.
Where a spitfire or FW-190 needed a great pilot to bring out its best performance, the P-51 was so user friendly, a relative novice pilot could fly like an ace after a short time flying in this wonderful plane.
MadMilitiaMen 3 months ago
the thing about the spit was it was a 'sports car' where as the hurri was a sedan good gun platform and reliable the 51 was a flying gas tank ergo 'long legged' and when they put the paddle props on the 47 it could out climb anything and nothing could out dive it the later model 38s could tail gate all of em but the allison engine was a bummer..imagine that one with merlin engines which was about the best and of course the 262 set the new standard
moss8448 3 months ago
1 Me 262(indiscutible)
2 P51
3 FW190 D9
4 P47
5 Me109
6 SPITFIRE
7 La7
8 YAK9
9 F4U
10 Ki100
jonastti 3 months ago
@jonastti The P-51 wasnt anything special except for the role of long range bomber escort. It was no better than the later Spitfires when it came to dogfights.
Retchmack 3 months ago
Like all good pilots use to say its the man not the plane but those planes were in a class of their own
moss8448 3 months ago
@moss8448 I second that, skill is the secret spice to the art of air combat, thankd for the comment mate
Giselle76502 3 months ago
P51 at #4...You gotta be kidding me. Wow...Ok, put 3 p51's up against all the other aircraft at the same time. If you are a betting man I have a feeling you would think long and hard about betting against the mustangs.
namznej 3 months ago
F-4U Corsair....should be on the list...
Wildkkat1 4 months ago
Finally someone who understands British engineering and not some american fanatic.
class37trash 4 months ago
@class37trash Yes I like some american stuff, but its no match for our spiffing good aircraft. The Hurri for example is tough, easdy to repair, and exteremly versitile. Althogh I do think the Mustang is a good plane, it comes nowhere near the good old Hurricane. I expect your from the UK to, yes?
Giselle76502 4 months ago
@class37trash So you get a British fanatic. Glad your national bias is satisfied now.
clearlogicify 3 months ago
@class37trash did you know that the spitfire and the hurricane are variants of the p-40 warhawk but when the brits modded the p-40 into a spitfire and the spitfire was modded into into a p-51 by the u.s. wich evoled into a p-38 which became the idea of the jet me262 then the first u.s. jet the p-80 wich became jets today so the britsh and the u.s. made the best weapons in history thanks britan
ww2guy100 3 months ago
the boutlon-paul-defiant lost to the nazis in 1940!!!
dvdjjb 4 months ago
the hurricane wasn't the best
froschn27 4 months ago
@froschn27 I say it is, other wiise it was (What we Brits call) the best of British
Giselle76502 4 months ago
me 262 was the best plane ....
12ussi4 4 months ago
nice, a swedish mustang in a vid about ww2 planes... sweden were never involved in ww2 :P
Jonaszu 4 months ago
@Jonaszu Well, I wanted a change
Giselle76502 4 months ago
The defiants and Fulmars are considered failures by most aviation historians and I agree. The Corsair, the Hellcat, the Oscar, the FW-190, and MiG-3 were all far better. Heck, I'd even put the P-40 above those two duds.
Gazzara5 4 months ago
@Gazzara5 WHOOOW are you a pilot?
Well, yeah, I'll be honest, the Fulmar and Daffy are flopps but they had they're days, I like the Defiant cause, like the Hurricane, it was the true savour of Great Britain.
Giselle76502 4 months ago
mustang should be #1 and you forgot he corsair
hondadude7 4 months ago
me109 forever
Corozion 4 months ago
LOL #1 Hurricane?!??? HAHAHHAH OMG
antebigon 4 months ago
@antebigon I don't know about you, but the Hurricane is tough, repairible, can pack a helluva punch and, its versitile, not to mention that some of the RAF's aces like Bob Stanford Tuck and Douglas Badder flew Hurricanes. Obselete though it my be, its AWSOME!!!!!
Giselle76502 4 months ago
your view .... p51 p38 fw 190 would be my top 3 zero was also one of the lightest and most manouverable.early spiotfires were barbi and couldnt fly upside down
hqfifty 5 months ago
@hqfifty Griffon engined spitfires could fly upside down.
Giselle76502 4 months ago
But please don't forget that the Hurris where usually targetted at the (slower, clumsier) bombers while the German fighters were left for the Spitfires.
josesche 5 months ago
@josesche Defints were also tasked with takeing on the (Larger, Lumbering) bombers too
Giselle76502 5 months ago
Where is the damn Foker Wolf FW-190 The legendary aircraft which was copied by the allied nations and to this day it was one of the best aircraft that took to the skies in WW-II ????????? This list is a crap !! And not to mention Me262 against which B-17's were sitting ducks !!!
F139 5 months ago
the p-38 is way better than that
52outbound 6 months ago
@52outbound I agree it was a very advanced and Innovative aircraft. when it was first built it was faster and had a longer range than any other fighter.
zylawyrk 6 months ago
hell yeah. with dudes like Bader and Hartmann and all those awesome pilots, to a certain extent it didn't matter what plane they were in, they were just so good at flying. they would still get kills on aircraft better than theirs.
zylawyrk 6 months ago
10: Yakalov Yak-3A 9: Republic P47D-11 Thunderbolt 8: Messerchmit BF-109G2 7: Supermarine SeaFury 6: Grumman F6F Bearcat 5: Chance Vought F4U4 Corsair 4: Supermarine Spitfire Mk IX 3: Focker Wulf Fw-190A3 2: Messershmit ME262 1: North American P51D Mustang
Let me know what you think
P4ckerBacker52 6 months ago
How could the defiant beat out the p-38 when Americas top WW2 aces flew p-38s? the defiant was just a slow piece of shit that got dominated by the luftwaffa. and how could the hurricane beat out the 109 when the greatest Ace of all time flew a 109?
zylawyrk 6 months ago
@zylawyrk I like the Hurricane cause it can take a crud loada punishment and come back home in one peice, before it was repaired and back in the sky within a short period of time, like the P-47.
Giselle76502 6 months ago
@Giselle76502 yeah the spit takes all the credit for saving england in the battle of britain when the majority of the planes in service was the hurricane. not that the spit sucks, but the poor hurricane got sidelined.
zylawyrk 6 months ago
@zylawyrk True, Douglas Bader, Britains Greatest fighter ace, flew the Hurricane before flying Spitfire
Giselle76502 6 months ago
@zylawyrk Not to mention the Hurri shot down half the Luftwaffe and also was more versitile than the spit
Giselle76502 4 months ago
Comment removed
Eoinmcampbell 3 months ago
@zylawyrk
Nonsense!
The Hurricane did indeed account for more scores during the Battle of Britain, but only because the 'more agile & versatile' Spitfires were tasked with tackling the formidable ME/BF109s while Hurricanes were assigned to wallop the slow, cumbersome bombers!
As for the 'more versatile' suggestion as regards the Hurricane, it could take more of a beating than the thoroughbred Spitfire, but 24 marks of spitfire, countless engine upgrades and fighting in every arena...!?
Eoinmcampbell 3 months ago
@Eoinmcampbell there were only 8 marks of the spitfire in WWII . MkIa, MkIIa , MkV a,b,c MkVII , MkVIII , MkIX , MKXII , MKXIV . most others were photo recons starting with the MkVI which became the PR.IX MkIII was the seafire MkI The MKX was the seafire IILf , spitfire XI was the seafire MkIII.LaF The spit XVI was just packard built merlin 266 with a chain driven supercharger . Mk's XV - 19 were all photo recon or test rigs . The MK IV became the MK XII
edmundscycles 1 week ago
@zylawyrk no the top aces flew p-51 mustangs wich is much better
rocketry1000 6 months ago
@rocketry1000 Top American Aces of WW2
1 Richard Bong P-38
2 Tom MGuire P-38
3 Francis Gabreski P-47 the top three did not fly p-51. other aces did but not the top three.
zylawyrk 6 months ago
@zylawyrk the reason that he got so many kills is because he went into bomber fleets and each person dead is a kill
52outbound 6 months ago
@52outbound Who? Bong? he flew in the pacific were the japanese didn't use many large bombers. I don't know were you heard that a dead person counts as a kill a kill counts as one aircraft shot down, theres no way to tell how many people you hit inside a large plane.
zylawyrk 6 months ago
My top 10: 1. Fw 190, 2. Yakovlev Yak-9, 3. P-51 Mustang, 4. ME 262 , 5. Mitsubishi A6M Zero, 6. Supermarine Spitfire, 7. ME 109, 8. Vought 4FU Corsair, 9. Republic P-47 Thunderbolt, 10. Lockheed P-38 Lightning
yarcon10 6 months ago
@Benfisheruk Beaufighter and Stuka were bombers, not fighters
yarcon10 6 months ago
@yarcon10 I see the Beufighter as a Fighter bomber, the JU87 was an epic fail in Air to Air, largly dureing the Battle of Britain
Giselle76502 6 months ago
@Giselle76502 Even so, beaufighter does not belong in a top 10 of fighterplanes.
JU 87 Stuka was a divebomber. Also did a good job as a tankkiller.
yarcon10 6 months ago
@Benfisheruk sturmovik isnt a fighter its a fighter/bomber used in both cases... btw why no yak-9?
MultiStas123 6 months ago
@Benfisheruk Cool, we are all different, thanks for the comment
Giselle76502 7 months ago
who disliked?
Giselle76502 9 months ago
@Giselle76502 Mitch Connor
TheEs379 9 months ago
@Giselle76502 the guy hiding under your bed disliked. O_o JK lol, just messin' with ya. Don't take dislikes personally, though. But if they are being morons about why they disliked in the comments, then feel free to block the user from your account.
UNpilot15 8 months ago
@UNpilot15 Well, we Know Jamie Jones would never dislike a WWII plane video
Giselle76502 8 months ago
@Giselle76502 if he did, the world would end...
UNpilot15 8 months ago
@UNpilot15 LOL
Giselle76502 8 months ago
1. Defiant
2. Roc
3. Me262
4. bf 109
5. he 100
6. spitfire
7. hurricane
8. fulmar
9. me 110
10. p51
TheBoyo1234 9 months ago