I have seen comments over and over saying traditional dogfights are over, but don’t most pilot training programs still emphasize dogfight training? The F-35 is also still very much an agile plane. If dogfights are in the past, why are modern stealth fighters not just large missile/bomb/drone trucks built to emphasize payload?
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Missiles can hit targets beyond visual range. Theres no point in closing to make visual contact when your weapons can fire and forget.
Pilots still train to dogfight as a last ditch scenario and planes need to be agile enough to evade.
Here’s a video of a simulator running a fictional scenario with weapons having rumored specifications. This isn’t a real life scenario but give an idea of how these operations work.
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