so the sparrow and bvr radar was mean to be useless???, comon its obvius that we are talking about defensive strategies and air superiority, in fact the occidental planes have that problem more that soviet by all those movable sams (sa6,sa10,sa3,etc) and AAA, you can use also offensive tactics at heigh, youre fast, your weapons have more range, and the ECM works better (remember at low heights the ecm signals keeps very confined)

In the multiple dogfight of the 70s/80s of limited value, when the rules of engagement demanded visual indification first

theres not point to that afgument in a war, the aim7-amraan capacity isnt for an truly medium long range bvr interception or against low level targets

earlier f100s have bypass of 0.7-0.87

comon sens, syrian mig23 are like korean mig15s, depends on tactics and training

wellllll, thef16 never was an air superiority fighter, i was an small low level bomber , if the americans would needed an small figther they would chose the f17.

its obvius that the mig23 bvr and high altitude engine performance would give troubles to the F-16s,i think that is obvius that above 5000-6000mts both planes have similar sustained turn , maybe an dogfight tactic would be an fast dive over the falcons form height (12-15kms) -like honchos korean tactics-, keeping high is always an advantage -if youre an good pilot-, add also the IRST with missiles, at such heigh the rockets have better range, the f16s must climb to reduce that advantage, bad idea, some people think that air-combat tactics are maverick-top gun pirouettes but that isnt the reality.

well with all respect that airsande plus report have poor credibility.

the performance at high altitude is an advantage on BVR combat (if you have the missiles and radar, of course), also almost all dogfights are at 10000-5000 mts, obviusly fighting against an f16 with a 23 below 5000mts is suicide, but a good pilot wont make such mistake

the M2000 is one of the best medium-high altitude fighter, yes it have relative high iduced drag, but thats compensted with the engine and relative unstable design, i dont think that the 23 could match the M2000 at heigh

Other pilots evaluate the Eagle’s maneuvering capabilities as more analogous to MiG-23MLD.”

in which conditions????, maybe at medium-high subsonic speeds (400-450 knots), and sustained turn at such speeds, but i doubt that in low level vertical maneuvres

i like the technological disscusion, comparing diferent tech solutions sometimes to the same problems that must face engienner teams arround the world, i dont understand the pasion to disscus such threads, we are talking about an invasion like to play warcraft or ats f22 pc games… i mean there lives, families, childs, women and men involved.

only that….