Thread: F18 dogfighting
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Old March 26th 06, 04:40 PM posted to rec.aviation.military.naval
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Default Who Will Transition to Hornets and Who Won't? [was F18 dogfighting]

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i'm not sure that the aim-54 has seen too many upgrades over its life,
and tend to think it is an overrated weapon.

Because it was never used in combat by US forces, we may never know.
However there is ofcourse the Tom Cooper school in which Phoenixes used
by Iranian Tomcats pretty much wiped out waves of Iraqi jets - Cooper
cites one event in which a single missile destroyed several MiG-23's.

i bet the long range phoenix shots would be a pretty easy kinematic
defeat by a knowledgeable bandit.

Why would you say that?