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From: anthony@batserver.cs.uq.oz.au (Anthony Lee)
Newsgroups: sci.military
Subject: Re: Mig-29 operated by Iraq
Keywords: AIM-54, olive drab fuzzy bananas
Message-ID: <1991Jan19.043412.6425@cbnews.att.com>
Date: 19 Jan 91 04:34:12 GMT
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From: anthony@batserver.cs.uq.oz.au (Anthony Lee)

In <1991Jan17.053752.29563@cbnews.att.com> davisp@skybridge.SCL.CWRU.Edu (Palmer Davis) writes:

>Other way around.  The AIM-54 is big and relatively unmaneuverable; it's
>intended to shoot down targets that are also big and relatively unmaneuverable,
>like long-range bombers and ASMs.  (And carried by the big and relatively
>unmaneuverable F-14.)  If the MiG saw the missile in time (or even had a

Sorry to disagree but I think the F14 is more maneuverable then you think.
Back in the early days of the F15s, the Navy F14s used to regularly 
beat the F15s in dogfight simulations.
Also don't forget the engagements against the Su and Mig fighters of the
Libyan air force.

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