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Originally Posted by Charlemagne Allen  You know what's really retarded idea? The whole US miitary circa 1960 saying, "Hey, dogfighting is dead! Let's not put machine guns on our interceptors and stick to these guided missiles that are untested in combat!" And then all the hi-tech American Thunderchiefs get shot down by Migs....
/face-palm |
Not just the missiles, but going away from the bubble canopy. That's why the fighter jocks were so geeked when the F15 came out with the full bubble cockpit to replace the F4 Phantom.
And they're sticking with the idea in the F22 Raptor:
