Yeah but you’re not going to be traveling at 800 knots in CLOSE IN combat 🙂

Why should an F-22 choose to engage in low speed close range fight, if it gives away most of it advantages when doing so ?

He’s talking about close combat though. If you’re within visual range and get a missile launched at you (particularly if it’s something like an AMRAAM that is a long range missile that works close in) there is NO way you’re going to out RUN it. You might out turn it if it isn’t a modern dogfight missile but you’re not going to out distance it. Those Migs that out ran Phoenix and Sparrow in Desert Storm were tens of miles distant at launch.

No you cn´t outrun it, but you can more easily outturn it. after the rocket motor has burned out the missile looses engery every second it flies. Add an need to manouver and it loses even more energy.

So any missile following a target moving at 800 knots and pulling 4G will have less energy in the final pahse, then a missile tracking a 300 knots target.

So the faster plane has more energy left for its evasive manouver and faces a missle that has less energy left. The slower but more nimble plane is able to turn better and sharper, but also moves less in relation to the missile and the missile has more energy left to follow the plane. And that is just for a rear hemispher attack.

Using a side shot, the faster plane even looks better.

That is true, but why do you think that F-22 is faster than Mig-29 ?
It is faster only in dry power,in cruise.
In the battle zone, Mig-29 could engage reheat, with which it is much faster than F-22.

The cruise speed of F-22 is advantageous only before combat starts, trying to sneak to enemy aircraft.
But when Mig switch to max power, all F-22 speed advantage is gone.

The F-22 is not faster in the max speed, but it has a better TWR ad that means it can reagain energy (speed or altitude) much easier. And even more importantly the reduced nee for the use of the AB gives it a longer combat persistence which allows it to engage nad disengage at will.

Because, missiles are not allmighty. They are limited in flight time, engine burn time, max g, off-bore sight, etc.
When you read that some missile has 9 g capability, that doesn’t mean that it could be sustained. When engine stops, max g drops sharply, etc,etc.

For that reason, firing aircraft has to have good point and shot capability, to acquire firing solution faster.

When two missiles have similar off-boresight capability, the one which is launched at more favorable AoA will have a more effective range.

That is why, aircraft AoA is important.

But using your high AoA stuff and loosing much energy in the process makes you a sitting duck for a high off boresight launched missile from the nemy. So in the ned the best you can hope for is a draw, with both planes shot down.

Apparently theres something about the A330s design that does not lend itself well to a freighter conversion. Not 100% what it is or if that is indeed true.

Not sure about. At least they have designed the tanker / cargo version for millitary use based on the A330. So it should be possible.