Teen Series

{{Short description|Group of American combat aircraft}}

{{about|U.S. combat fighter aircraft|YA fiction|teen fiction}}

The Teen Series is a popular name{{cite web|url=http://www.defenseindustrydaily.com/f-18-super-hornets-to-get-irst-03429/

|title=Heat Vision: US Teen Series Fighters Getting IRST

|publisher=Defense Industry Daily

|quote= Programs are underway to give some American 'teen series' fighters this capability, albeit in a somewhat unusual way ...

|accessdate=30 August 2013

}}{{cite journal|url=http://www.ausairpower.net/TE-ATF-91.html

|title=The Advanced Tactical Fighter [YF-22 and YF-23]

|author=Carlo Kopp

|journal=Australian Aviation

|date=April–May 1991

|volume=1991

|issue=April

|quote=Unlike earlier designs, the ATF is a careful blend of advanced aerodynamics, propulsion and electronics and involves a degree of system integration never before attempted in a tactical aircraft. The reason for this unprecedented effort is quite clear – the Russians have finally deployed their equivalent to the teen series fighters (see May, June 1990 AA), the Flanker and Fulcrum, and have thus very rapidly closed the technological gap which offered such favourable exchange rates for so long.

|accessdate=30 August 2013}} for a group of American combat aircraft. The name stems from a series of American supersonic jet fighters built for the United States Air Force and the United States Navy during the late 20th century. The designations system was the 1962 United States Tri-Service aircraft designation system, which reset the F-# sequence. The term typically includes the Grumman F-14 Tomcat, McDonnell Douglas F-15 Eagle, General Dynamics F-16 Fighting Falcon, and McDonnell Douglas F/A-18 Hornet.{{cite journal|last=Kopp|first=Carlo|title=Lockheed-Martin / Boeing F-22 Raptor|journal=Air Power Australia|url=http://www.ausairpower.net/APA-Raptor.html|quote=The Sukhoi and MiG fighters were designed around the aerodynamic, propulsion and tactical ideas which were central to the US teen-series F-14, F-15, F-16 and F/A-18A fighters: highly agile 'energy fighters' capable ...|accessdate=14 May 2011|date=13 May 2011|pages=1 }}

Unsuccessful experimental and prototype fighters assigned numbers in the teen range (13–19) are generally not considered part of the series. Thus, it does not include the prototype Northrop YF-17, which later evolved into the F/A-18. Additionally, the designations F-13 and F-19 were not assigned.

File:F-14A Tomcat over Iraq during Southern Watch.jpg|F-14 Tomcat – twin-engine, two-seat, swing-wing fighter

File:F-15, 71st Fighter Squadron, in flight.JPG|F-15 Eagle – twin-engine, tactical fighter

File:F-16 June 2008.jpg|F-16 Fighting Falcon – multirole fighter

File:USN F-A-18C 170805 CV63.jpg|F/A-18 Hornet – carrier-capable multirole fighter