Soviet Airforces combat tactics in the 80s

Can someone point to sources esp english books that deal with the tactics of soviet airforces

e.g is a post by a member on another forum, is there any truth in it ?

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When it came to tactics, the Soviet concept was to try and get an unseen shooter into the conflict. They preferred the furball because they knew as was shown by the AIMVAL/ACEVAL Test, reguardless of the quality difference between one side versus the other.
In these test the F-15A beat the F-5 64-0 in 1V1. As the number of aircraft increased the kill ratio came down so by the time you get thirty-two or more aircraft on each side the F-15A had a kill ratio over the F-5 of only 2:1!! The unseen shooters were making the kills.

If you study the incident between the Libyan MiG.-23 and the USN F-14A’s in January 1989, it is a very good example of Soviet tactics versus NATO style tactics of the late Cold War period.
The F-14’s approached the fight in a line-abreast formation. The Libyan used the Soviet “trail” formation, in which one aircraft follows another at a different altitude. The idea was that the Western radars would detect the first aircraft but, not the second aircraft trailing.
The F-14 pilots knew the MiG.-23’s could not look down into “sea clutter” well. That is why as the F-14’s approached the MiG’s they continued to lose altitude. By the time the two groups were twenty-seven miles apart, the F-14’s were at 5,000ft and descending, the lead MiG at 9,000ft and, the trailing MiG. at 13,000ft a few miles behind his leader. The F-14’s had been locked-up five times but, once at 5,000ft or lower the F-14’s were not locked-up by the MiG’s again.
After the FSU developed the MiG.-29 and Su-27, the desired tactic was to use MiG.-21’s or 23’s to engage the US aircraft. Get the Western aircraft into a furball reducing their energy then, have the MiG.-29’s and/or Su-27’s enter the fight at a higher energy state and prevail. To lose a MiG.-21, MiG.-23 (or two/three) for the loss of an F-14 or F-15 while greatly reducing the losses of the MiG.-29’s and Su-27’s is a good exchange. This would prevent the West from getting an aerial war from gaining anything better than air parity.