MiG-21’s generally were superior in flight characteristics, if you read the aforementioned articles. They suffered in practice, especially in target awareness and man to machine interface. Nobody in an F-5(anything) wants to face an F-7G, due to inferiority of the design. But the newest refits give them great odds in a confrontation.
Thanks MadRat for restoring sanity.
Because J-20 Bacon / F-18 Hamburger / J-7 Hotdog / etc etc seems to be steering this away and moving goal posts while punching strawmen, here is what I originally asked:
So, I was thinking of what would happen if these two fine fighters met in air combat. Which would have the upper hand? We are talking about WVR combat here.
Clearly, with the older pure delta models, the F-5s would have the upper hand. But I think, just maybe, just maybe, the J-7G, with its double delta wings will have the F-5s beat.
What say you? Would dearly love a technical analysis of the two.
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As far as HMS and HOBS goes, the J-7G has that as is well known. What we usually discuss in a dogfight are other agility / aerodynamic factors, typically – raw combat performance because HOBS and HMS alone are never good enough (otherwise we would not be berating a whole number of aircraft out there that lack performance).
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