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Originally Posted by SUBMAN1
PS. American doctrine and F-22 doctrine put the ideal scenario at BVR. This is not by chance, this is how the F-22 plays the game. Close, you can not only see it, but it is vulnerable to SR AA missiles. The F-22 in my opnion can probably wipe every last fighter from the sky using hit and run tactics using BVR, and there isn't a damn thing an enemy can do about it.
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Hope it will work out like that in practice and not like in Vietnam, where you had a big lumbering all-weather fighter/bomber with a very long reach - yet unable to use it due to RoE restrictions. Once an enemy closed the gap he was facing an opponent without the weapons or practice to battle in tight quarters. Not like the air war was a failure, but losses were taken.