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Old 05-09-06, 02:56 PM   #10
Konovalov
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I think quite a few people view all this as "eye-candy" and ask the following question. Are any of these fancy moves of any use in a real modern day air combat environment? I'm guessing that the F-22 crowd would probably say no. The video was excellent in anycase.
Right because with all these fancy Buck Rodgers like missiles there’s never going to be a dogfight! Like what everyone said when we designed the F-4 Phantom!
And you have just demonstrated the counter argument to that. Of course from all of this came Tom Cruise and Top Gun.
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