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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There were multiple aerial dog fights between India and Pakistan on February 27 2019. Both air forces are large and modern, and used fairly up to date equipment in the confrontation (F-16Cs and JF-17s on the Pakistani side, heavily upgraded Su-30s and Mig-21s on the Indian side) so dogfights between air forces of comparable ability and close geographic proximity are far from a thing of the past.
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