The North American F-100 Super Sabre was a jet fighter aircraft that served with the USAF from 1954 to 1971 and with the ANG until 1979. It was the successor to the F-86 Sabre, the first of the century series of U.S. jet fighters, and the first U.S. fighter capable of supersonic speed in level flight. In its later life it was often referred to as "the Hun", a shortened version of "one hundred".