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1. white_male (white_male@poa.st)'s status on Tuesday, 14-May-2024 10:53:28 JST white_male

   • Terry
   • CoQ_10
   @niobleoum @CoQ_10 @Terry >soviet approach of close air combat that got obsolete like 40 years ago
   Plain retarded take. So called dog fighting was a by product of technology of their times. Neither RU, nor USA had reliable fire and forget tech. They all had more less the same shitty rockets with piss poor target lock on and chase capability.
   Imagining weapon technology development didn't influence war tactics of both equally is retarded.
   • gentooP (gentoop@social.mikutter.hachune.net)'s status on Tuesday, 14-May-2024 10:53:28 JST gentooP

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     • Terry
     • CoQ_10

     @Terry @CoQ_10 @niobleoum @white_male That and that the Soviets in the late era focused on long range air to air missiles while america afterwards ended up scraping the long range missiles and going for shorter range missiles and compensate with larger number. These f-16s are inevitably going to need to get well within firing range of planes and these people are trying to make lame excuses for why it will not perform well enough to expectations. "Dogfight" is one