A Multirole combat aircraft can be a fighter or a bomber, depending on what the mission calls for.

A multirole combat aircraft is a military aircraft intended to perform different roles in combat.

Although accurately portrayed as primarily a fighter aircraft in the 1980s, the F-16 eventually evolved into a multirole combat aircraft.

More practically, the cost of a specialized ground-attack aircraft is harder to justify as opposed to having multirole combat aircraft.

Multirole combat aircraft, the concept of an aircraft that can be used for more than one combat role; particularly:

Known in the West as the "Vigorous Dragon", the J-10 is a multirole combat aircraft capable of all-weather operation.

The Rafale is a multirole combat aircraft; capable of simultaneously undertaking air supremacy, interdiction, reconnaissance, and airborne nuclear deterrent missions.

Few fixed-wing designs are currently employed, as air forces tend to assign the task to the ubiquitous multirole combat aircraft (sometimes described also as strike fighters).

The Gripen was a contender for the Indian MRCA competition for 126 multirole combat aircraft.

This variant would arm the Sukhoi Su-30MKI, Mirage 2000 and future inductions such as the 126 multirole combat aircraft.

The British stayed with the concept and formed another collaboration with the Germans and Italians, which eventually produced the Panavia Tornado multirole combat aircraft.

Subsequent military aircraft designed and built by Pan-European teams included the Panavia Tornado and the Eurofighter Typhoon, both multirole combat aircraft.

The British Aerospace P.125 was a British supersonic STOVL Multirole combat aircraft being developed in the 1980s.

The RVV-SD, along with the RVV-MD, seem to be part of Russia's bid for India's medium multirole combat aircraft competition.

In current military parlance, a strike fighter is a multirole combat aircraft designed to operate primarily in the air-to-surface attack role while also incorporating certain performance characteristics of a fighter aircraft.

Lockheed Martin, based in Bethesda, Md., brought one of its F-16 multirole combat aircraft and is also showing its P-3C surveillance aircraft and its strike missiles to the Indian military.

Mr. Bush, speaking from his Texas ranch, told the Indian prime minister that the United States was "responding" to New Delhi's request for information on "multirole combat aircraft," according to White House officials.

A multirole fighter is a multirole combat aircraft which is, at the same time, also a fighter aircraft; in other words, an aircraft whose various roles include, among others, the role of air-to-air combat.

The NATO Multirole Combat Aircraft Development and Production Management Agency (NAMMA) was established to manage development and production of the Tornado.

This role is filled by tactical bomber class, which crosses and blurs with various other aircraft categories: light bombers, medium bombers, dive bombers, interdictors, fighter-bombers, attack aircraft, multirole combat aircraft, and others.

"And part of that is a decision to begin negotiations with the Pakistani government and Congress to sell F-16's to Pakistan and to respond favorably to a request for information from India for the possible sale of multirole combat aircraft."

Under the ASTA banner, engines for the Dassault Mirage III jet fighters were produced, as well as assembly of the F/A-18 multirole combat aircraft for the Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF).

For example, Buggy, Task Force Talon's reconnaissance vehicle, can be upgraded with rockets and become an anti-aircraft unit; meanwhile, F-35 Joint Strike Fighter of Task Force Talon is a multirole combat aircraft that can attack both buildings and enemy aircraft.

As of 2012, satellite imagery of the area showed J-10 multirole combat aircraft from the People's Liberation Army Air Force (PLAAF) deployed at the base, with Russian-made Sukhoi Su-30 fighters and unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV) being gradually introduced.

In 2007, after a visit to China, the Prime Minister said in a press conference held in Islamabad that serial production of JF-17 Thunder would soon start in 2008 and Pakistan would like to sell fourth generation JF-17 Thunder multirole combat aircraft to those interested.

They are usually more expensive and procured in smaller numbers than multirole fighters.

It was required to be a multirole fighter for the front line defensive air force to gain offensive strike ability.

Modern multirole fighters are capable of filling the night fighter role with no modifications.

It uses the same game engine as F-16 Multirole Fighter.

Multirole fighter all-weather version under development to replace F-5E/F by 2013.

The continually rising cost of fighters, however, continued to emphasize the value of multirole fighters.

Nowadays, aircraft that carry similar duties are typically called multirole fighters or, sometimes, strike fighters.

The Eurofighter Typhoon is a twin-engine, canard-delta wing, multirole fighter.

The French would take the lead role in a light ground-attack/trainer, while the British assumed the leadership of a swing-wing multirole fighter project.

Said to be scheduled to received the FC-1/JF-17 multirole fighter from China when it goes into production.

Consistent with the Administration's plan, the measure canceled the Navy's advanced attack plane and the Air Force's multirole fighter plane.

The player can fly a variety of real and fictional combat aircraft-fighters, attackers, multirole fighters, bombers, and ground-attack aircraft.

The Mirage 2000 is a French-built multirole fighter jet manufactured by Dassault Aviation.

Further extensive military cooperation took place under the George W. Bush administration, with Israel placing major orders for F-16I multirole fighters.

F-16 Fighting Falcon, multirole fighter (Originally General Dynamics)

The first sales occurred in September 1985 and the most recent contract for 72 Eurofighter Typhoon multirole fighters was signed in August 2006.

The concept of multirole fighter, such as F/A-18, also decreased the need for escorts, as the aircraft on air strike mission became capable of effective self-defense.

On 18 April 1984, the Soviet government instructed Sukhoi to develop an air defence fighter; Mikoyan was ordered to build a lighter multirole fighter.

The Tejas is single-engined multirole fighter which features a tailless, compound delta planform and is designed with "relaxed static stability" for enhanced manoeuvrability.

The Administration would also cancel two fighter aircraft still on the drawing board: the Navy's A/F-X and the Air Force's multirole fighter.

The Boeing F/A-18E/F Super Hornet is a twin-engine carrier-based multirole fighter aircraft.

By 1989, Yugoslavia started developing a new domestic multirole fighter called Novi Avion, which was supposed to replace the MiG-21 and J-21 Jastreb fleets entirely.

All ROSE-modified aircraft are expected to remain in service with the Pakistan Air Force beyond 2010, being replaced by the JF-17 multirole fighter by 2015.

The program has expanded beyond a trainer concept to include the TA-50 light attack aircraft, as well as the FA-50 multirole fighter similar to the multirole KF-16.

Sukhoi Su-33s (navalized Flankers) are the aircraft most likely to be flown from these carriers, but China is also developing its own multirole fighter, the Shenyang J-15.