Re: Fighter Fur Balls a thing of the past?

--- Phillip Atcliffe <Phillip.Atcliffe@uwe.ac.uk>
wrote:
> On Thu, 31 May 2001 02:41:18 -0400 Ryan Gill
> <rmgill@mindspring.com> 
> wrote:
> 
> > A bloody interesting article at Janes. <
> 
> True, but haven't we heard this before? "The bomber
> will always get 
> through" from pre-WW2; "the dogfight is obsolete
> because jets fly too 
> fast" between WW2 and Korea; "the dogfight is
> obsolete now that we've 
> got missiles" in Vietnam and after...
> 
...

I agree. And let's not forget the identification
issue. If you have to get close enough to distinguish
between a backfire with a missile and a 777, you're
probably close enough for guns to be a factor. 

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