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Originally Posted by jason taylor
Fighter does presume the existence of bombers. Otherwise it just means, "really fast aircraft." With the exception of interesting oddities like the B-52 and the Stealth(which is ridiculously called a fighter) and the warthog all warplanes are fighters even though most of their missions are ground attack. But once you stop making dedicated attack aircraft then the term fighter is just generic. When there is for all practical purposes just one type of warplane which is fighter-bomber then the term fighter is nostalgia not precision. Just like paratroopers is just another word for infantry with attitude problems when all infantry are infantry.
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Are you perhaps thinking of
Interceptors? Interceptors are aircraft specifically designed to intercept bombers and often place very high importance on speed. Without the existence of bombers "really fast aircraft" would be a good descriptor for many interceptors.