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Originally Posted by Stealhead
What you posted Gimpy is pretty much what they said back in the late 50's and early 60's and they where wrong "Our better missiles will win the day dog fighting is a thing of the past old boys".Today we are saying the same thing with the F-22 with even more advanced technology than what was available in the old day and just as likely to perform less than ideally in the real world.
The F-22 is a relic of Cold War thinking that is no longer valid if you ask me.
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well, it depends how you USE the fighter. We have dogfighters in our arsenal for sure. all you would need to do is send a mixed group of fighters up.
Give the agile fighters instructions to go in to a dogfight with the enemy, and have the very hard to detect F-22 Provide Top cover.
The minute somebody tries to disengage with those agile little vipers is the F-22's moment to shine. Its fast and stealthy, a perfect hit-and-run fighter.
This is a pretty old tactic and has been used since WWI (in this case the slow but agile Dr.I and Albatross)