Thanks Duggy. One tries.
Far from being ‘lazy’ I offered the results of a number of years research, examples and (in passing) the answer to the “better pilot in inferior aircraft will beat average pilot in superior aircraft” trope – which is that the inferior cannot dictate the combat, though may win on occasion or evade. In that case the inferior aircraft operator (the country & air force) ‘loose’ because they cannot command and control the air.
Very well. The discussion you want is to match off performance factors and come up with one aircraft that has an aggregate performance advantage. There’s no reason not to do that, and it may be of interest or amusement, but for a number here, myself included, it’s of no import at all. (Because it is but one minor factor in reality, military planning and history.) But if you go ahead, you do need to define your terms better.
What is ‘lazy’, I would suggest is not properly defining your terms for the discussion. If the question “assumes equal pilot skill and experience” you need to say so, I’d suggest, as this is far more important than paper performance.
But count me out. Because, very simply:
A country’s fighter arm has a simple job to do; that it to obtain and keep command of the air so that the other military and political objectives can be carried out. That is all. There are many aspects to how to do that, among which is operating adequate aircraft supported by an infrastructure to carry it out. Differences between adequate aircraft (see my earlier point re: adequate vs inadequate) are completely irrelevant in real-world calculations or history, because they are never decisive.
By all means play on, but you’re arguing “what’s the taste of purple” with the posters here who see the question as overwhelmed by more real, larger factors.
Regards,
the question here was simply to know which one is the superior aircraft , of course i know about the pilot fact , but let just assume that it average or equal good in both side
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