If aerial dogfighting is obselete, why do pilots still train for it and why are planes still built for it?

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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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It’s probably going to be more important again in the future when other countries get stealth aircraft. Currently the US stealth planes can see and shoot down other planes from 20+ miles away without being seen on enemy radar.

If you want to detect a stealth aircraft you need to be really close, not quite dog fight with guns close, but if all 4 missiles fail hit you’ll be dog fight with guns close within a few seconds.

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