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From: adam@ste.dyn.bae.co.uk
Newsgroups: sci.military
Subject: Re: Air to Air F-16 vs. F-18
Message-ID: <1991Jun7.072017.7716@amd.com>
Date: 3 Jun 91 10:07:20 GMT
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From: adam@ste.dyn.bae.co.uk


In article <1991Jun1.012622.27527@amd.com>
>I seem to recall in a dogfight over NAS Miramar circa 1987, a flight of USMC
>F/A-18 Hornets defeated a flight of USAF F-16 Fighting Falcons.  I think there
>is some significance to that.

Yes - the conclusion you can draw is that the  USMC  pilots  were
better  than  the USAF pilots. The aircraft makes minimal difference.
Remember the Red Flag exercise where RAF Jaguars (single seat
ground attack aircraft with no fighter pretensions) shot down USAF
F-15s?  The pilot and his training count far more than the high tech
whizz-bang he's strapped into.

Adam