How does aerial combat work? Is it even a thing anymore?
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Air combat like you’d think of in WWII with dog fighting doesn’t really happen anymore. It’s also extremely rare for technological and military peers to directly engage each other. Mostly what you have is things like modern U.S. aircraft engaging 30 year old Syrian ones. A lot of combat is planes firing missiles at each other from beyond visual range. Also, a lot of the role of combat aircraft has now gone to surface-to-air missiles. For example, in the current conflict in eastern Ukraine, almost all aircraft shot down on both sides were shot down by surface0-to-air missiles and never actually engaged by other aircraft.
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