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Posted on 7/7/14 at 5:00 pm to Sliderstinks
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I think the Hornets are smoked in Beyond visual range scenarios. Dogfighting is another story.
well, that's the whole key to the Raptor, you will never see it, while the older block fighters are bulls in a china shop looking for it, dogfighting, or "knifefighting" as it's called, is kind of an individual thing, you are not the best simply because you are Navy, AF, etc., all the training is done to pretty much the same standards, I went to a Navy winging ceremony a while back, and half of the guys graduating that day were in the AF
Posted on 7/7/14 at 5:42 pm to Sliderstinks
And the USAF F-15s eat Hornets for lunch, too (in both BVR and up close dogfighting) My wife is Navy so we have had this discussion before... 
I have a few friends who are Eagle drivers who talk about dogfighting Hornets...they talked about how they smoked them in all scenarios, including guns only. They loved going against multiple bogies (2v5, 4v10, etc.). The Hornet (Legacy or Super) doesn't have and can't sustain the energy in those types of fights against the likes of the Eagle. There is a reason the Eagle is 100+ to 0...
I have a few friends who are Eagle drivers who talk about dogfighting Hornets...they talked about how they smoked them in all scenarios, including guns only. They loved going against multiple bogies (2v5, 4v10, etc.). The Hornet (Legacy or Super) doesn't have and can't sustain the energy in those types of fights against the likes of the Eagle. There is a reason the Eagle is 100+ to 0...
This post was edited on 7/7/14 at 5:53 pm
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