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The Phoenix is not a fighter-v-fighter weapon. It was designed to intercept slow and non-manueverable Soviet Bombers. While it does have a high max speed, that speed is NOT maintained during its continous flight. The Phoenix employs a maintainer motor once it reaches max-E altitude. Any fighter that detects the incoming missile has a high probability of outmaneuvering the Phoenix, since it was not designed to be a dogfighting missile.
Couple this with early problems Hughes encountered in mission readiness, the standdown of Soviet bombers and there is a reason that F-14Ds were not often seen loaded up with 6 Phoenix missiles as a typical loadout.
Wow. Rather a silly discussion isn't it? Without some operational context, mission need and order of battle this quickly will blur into a debate about "top speed", "range" and "best load-out".
I'll pass.
The F-14's F-15's get within 20km, a wild dogfight is soon to follow, who wins ? Or should I say who have the odds with or against them ?
Ahhhh, NO.Well in war different type a/c meet each other all the time, regardless if their flown properly or not
And what do you base that brillant deduction on?!?!?!?wow
if it came to the wire, f-16 would maul either of the a/c
but the eagle might be a close second, even if flown correctly
wow
if it came to the wire, f-16 would maul either of the a/c
but the eagle might be a close second, even if flown correctly