A neat little video feature by The Wall Street Journal on evolution of Air to Air...
So when the AF dude in the beginning talks about merge/dog fight being a "contingency" - is that opinion or doctrine?
You can't start your post with that first sentence and expect anyone to take it seriously.Here's what I learned about going to the merge and/or having to VID as a young CONE in the FRS-
Someone is going to die. It might be your lead- hopefully it wasn't from your missile. But you're -2 and the other guy has a -2 and now it's a fight for your life. Don't run out of gas. Don't hit the ground.
Guns kills are hard when they're set up as practice in the beginning, and even harder when the other guy gets to maneuver.
Dear lord this is really hard and lead is really good, maybe one day I won't die if I have to do this for real. But damn if I am not having a shit ton of fun practicing. And that one time lead called "blind sun" and I called "visual continue" followed by a completely bungled up series of fox and pipper calls I secretly knew I was a true zipper suited sun god.
Then the debrief happened and I realized how much I sucked all over again.
You can't start your post with that first sentence and expect anyone to take it seriously.
"Dog fighting" is an exercise in energy manangment with an emphasis on understanding the performance capabilities of both your own and the adversary's aircraft. Proper weapons employment and merge mechanics docturnially are designed so that you never arrive at a neutral merge with an adversary aircraft, but if you do it's nice to know where you have advantages and disadvantages. Plus, it's a lot of fun.
So he's got that going for him . . . which is nice.You should take anything I say about the fighter community as seriously as one would take the grounds keeper
(played by Bill Murray) in Caddy Shack. We all know he loves golf- but that dude is also missing a chromosome or two...
Gunga. Gunga Galunga.So he's got that going for him . . . which is nice.
Gunga. Gunga Galunga.
A neat little video feature by The Wall Street Journal on evolution of Air to Air...
So when the AF dude in the beginning talks about merge/dog fight being a "contingency" - is that opinion or doctrine?