HealzDevo
Staff Sergeant
You sure they were gun-kills and not missiles? Also were the other planes in the air at the time?
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Son, you got some reading to do, here go to this site....You sure they were gun-kills and not missiles? Also were the other planes in the air at the time?
Son, you got some reading to do, here go to this site....
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There have been dozens of dogfights involving guns and missiles since Vietnam. For one, Capt Cesar Rodriguez had a twisting and turning dogfight with a Mig-29 during Gulf War 1. He flew his opponent into the ground. Read on some of the conflicts, there were plenty of dogfights since Vietnam.
Don't hold your breath - in the late 50s some USAF and Pentagon wizkids said that dogfights will be a thing of the past and all fighters will be armed with missiles.
A few years later a little situation called Vietnam proved them very wrong...
I think UAVs will be the next wave of the future and will be used in conjunction with manned combat aircraft.