WarSimBox
Aircraft encyclopedia
The history and real data of the aircraft in WarSimBox, from oldest to newest. In the game, every aircraft flies with a flight model built from these figures. More aircraft are being added in order.
Hawker Hurricane Mk I
The RAF’s first monoplane fighter and the most numerous British fighter in the Battle of Britain.
Supermarine Spitfire Mk I
The legend with the elliptical wing, the only Allied fighter built throughout the entire war.
Junkers Ju 87 B-2 Stuka
The gull-winged, siren-wailing dive bomber that became the symbol of the Blitzkrieg.
Messerschmitt Bf 109 E-4
The most-produced fighter in history. The “Emil” was the Spitfire’s great rival in the Battle of Britain.
Messerschmitt Bf 110 C-4
The twin-engined “Zerstörer”: it struggled by day and made its name as a radar night fighter.
Heinkel He 111 H-3
The medium bomber with the glazed “greenhouse” nose, the best-known silhouette of the Blitz.
Polikarpov I-16 Tip 24
The first modern monoplane fighter to enter service: barrel-shaped, temperamental and very agile.
Bristol Blenheim Mk IV
A light bomber born faster than the RAF’s fighters, and the first RAF aircraft over Germany in the war.
Junkers Ju 88 A-4
Born as a fast bomber, it became the most versatile German aircraft of the war.
Mitsubishi A6M2 Zero (Model 21)
Very light, very agile, very long-ranged: master of the Pacific skies early in the war.
Supermarine Spitfire Mk Vb
The most-produced Spitfire, rushed out as the answer to the Bf 109 F.
Messerschmitt Bf 109 F-4
The “Friedrich”: round-tipped, hub-cannon armed, the best-balanced member of the 109 family.
Ilyushin Il-2 (single-seat)
The “flying tank”: the most-produced military aircraft in history.
Douglas SBD-3 Dauntless
“Slow But Deadly”: the dive bomber that sank four Japanese carriers at Midway.
Curtiss P-40E Warhawk
Rugged and fast in a dive; from the Flying Tigers to North Africa, on every front.
Petlyakov Pe-2
A dive bomber as fast as a fighter, and the Red Army’s most-produced bomber.
Supermarine Spitfire Mk IX
The Spitfire that caught up with the Fw 190 thanks to a two-stage Merlin: another stopgap that stayed.
Avro Lancaster B.I
The four-Merlin night bomber: a huge bomb bay, the “Dambusters” and the Tirpitz.
Messerschmitt Bf 109 G-6
The “Gustav”: more powerful, heavier, and the most-produced 109 version.
Focke-Wulf Fw 190 A-5
The “Würger”: a radial-engined, rugged, fast-rolling and heavily armed German fighter.
Ilyushin Il-2M3 (two-seat)
The two-seat Il-2, with a rear gunner, swept outer wings and 23 mm cannon.
Hawker Typhoon Mk Ib
A disappointment as a fighter, a legend as a ground-attack aircraft: the rocket-firing “Tiffy”.
Junkers Ju 87 D-5 Stuka
The more powerful, better armoured Stuka: the ground-support workhorse of the Eastern Front.
North American B-25J Mitchell
The aircraft of the Doolittle Raid: a gun-bristling medium bomber that fought on every front.
Boeing B-17G Flying Fortress
The “Flying Fortress”: the symbol of daylight bombing, bristling with thirteen heavy machine guns.
Lockheed P-38J Lightning
The twin-boom, turbo-supercharged fighter that shot down Yamamoto.
de Havilland Mosquito FB Mk VI
The “Wooden Wonder”: a versatile aircraft that carried no defensive guns and trusted its speed.
North American P-51D Mustang
The long-range fighter that escorted the bombers all the way to Berlin.
Messerschmitt Me 262 A-1a
The first jet fighter in combat: a bomber hunter with four 30 mm cannon.
Republic P-47D Thunderbolt
The “Jug”: a huge-engined, eight-gun, extremely tough fighter-bomber.
Ilyushin Il-10
The faster, all-metal successor to the Il-2.
Curtiss SB2C-4 Helldiver
A large dive bomber with a troubled birth that struck the Japanese fleet at the end of the war.
Yakovlev Yak-3
One of the lightest and most agile fighters of the war: down low it outclassed the Bf 109 and Fw 190.
Lavochkin La-7
Kozhedub’s aircraft: a radial-engined Soviet fighter, very fast at low level.
Grumman F6F-5 Hellcat
The American aircraft with the most kills in the Pacific: rugged, powerful and protective of its pilot.
Douglas A-26B Invader
A fast attack bomber with eight guns in its nose that flew in three wars.
Arado Ar 234 B-2 Blitz
The world’s first jet bomber and reconnaissance aircraft: no defensive guns, its speed was enough.
Gloster Meteor F.3
The only Allied jet fighter used in the war; its first job was hunting V-1 flying bombs.
Grumman F8F-1 Bearcat
The biggest engine in the smallest airframe: the last Grumman piston fighter, climbing like the early jets.
Vought F4U-4 Corsair
The gull-winged Corsair: a long career from the Pacific to Korea.
Boeing B-29A Superfortress
The giant pressurised strategic bomber: the peak of the piston era.
Heinkel He 162 A-2 Salamander
The “People’s Fighter”: a small jet with its engine on its back, designed and flown in 90 days.
Hawker Sea Fury FB.11
One of the last and fastest piston fighters: in Korea it even shot down a MiG-15.
Lockheed F-80C Shooting Star
America’s first operational jet fighter, which became a fighter-bomber in Korea.
Douglas AD-4 Skyraider
A piston attack aircraft born in the jet age: the “Spad” that could loiter over the target for hours.
de Havilland Vampire FB.5
The small twin-boom jet that was the first jet to land on an aircraft carrier.
Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-15bis
The swept-wing Soviet jet whose appearance over Korea stunned the West.
Ilyushin Il-28
The straight-winged, swept-tailed Soviet jet bomber: simple, rugged and long-lived.
Republic F-84G Thunderjet
The straight-winged jet fighter-bomber: workhorse of Korea and NATO.
English Electric Canberra B.2
Britain’s first jet bomber, with no defensive guns, flying high and fast.
North American F-86F Sabre
The swept-wing American fighter that fought the MiG-15 over Korea.
Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-21F-13
The delta-winged, Mach 2 light interceptor: the most-produced supersonic jet.
McDonnell Douglas F-4E Phantom II
The heavy, twin-engined, two-seat multirole jet: a Cold War icon that also flew with the Turkish Air Force.
McDonnell Douglas F-15A Eagle
The twin-tailed fighter designed for air superiority: more than 100 air-to-air victories and no losses.
Dassault Rafale C
The canard-delta French fighter: an “omnirole” aircraft that does every job with a single type.