If you had bothered to watch the rest of that episode of WINGS, the next featured pilot was a Top Gun graduate and scored 1:1. The next pilot died in the flailing leaf crash mode when he stalled to drop 10,000ft and recovered under the simulated ground. The next sortie of MiGs wiped the flight of Hornets. All the rest of it was against F-4s which the Hornets had little problem. I suggest you watch all of it before you only post what you want us to see and not what you don't want us to see.
You obviously don't know much about military aviation or air combat so I'll cut you some slack.
I did not claim the Hornet is invincible, you on the other said "The Hornet has been whooped by MiG-29" I merely presented HUD video as evidence to counter that claim of whooped. You do know what whooped means don't you? In close air combat the pilot that starts with a positional advantage typically wins. Our pilots have been trained to avoid turning death traps simply because in a turning fight the
outcome is uncertain.Little boys lay great emphasis on dog fight and dog fighting capabilities, we prefer to focus our attention on high value ground targets. Opponents that that take flight to challenge us are mere nuisance that must be dealt with as quickly as possible so our assets can quickly dismantle our enemies war making capability.
That said, the outcome of the MIG-29 vs Hornet close combat DACT was even with either aircraft failing to achieve superiority in close combat. Beyond visual range the MIG-29A was uncompetitive. So again your claim of 'whooped by MIG-29' is ridiculous.
Yes, I did see the remainder of the video and all related videos but I missed the part where..
The next sortie of MiGs wiped the flight of Hornets. "
where in the video did this 'wiping' occur? I hope you know what wiping means?
Rafale's limit seems to be 40 degrees based on the HUD videos.
Again, where in the video did the Rafale pitch 40 degrees? The max AoA I saw was a wobbly 27 degrees :emot112:
Of course we always have these gems from Rafale...
Yes fabricated gems by Rafale fanbooi's that are incapable of interpreting what they see.
I took the liberty of examining your video and capturing a few frames to
expose your deception
The Hornet appears once in your video, but since you don't know much about simulated close combat you probably don't know
for safety close combat training requires separation of a 1000 ft to employ weapons the Hornet in your video is passing directly in front of the Rafale's nose well within the mandated 1000 ft separation. This isn't a video of a F-18 kill the planes in question are not engaged in combat simulated or otherwise. Next time you post garbage from youtube ask for adult supervision. :angry_10:
I said a Mirage-2000 instructor pilot scored a lock-on and they made a patch for it.
The French claim a Raptor kill by a Mirage it may have happened like I said close combat is free for all anything can happen. But then you missed what was said by Lt Col Lansing Pilch about the exercise in UAE
"In every test we did, the Raptors just blew the competition out of the water."
Lt Col Lansing Pilch, commander of the 27th, and of the F-22 deployment to Al Dhafra, was categoric in stating his view of the Raptor's performance during the exercise. He confirmed that the six Raptors flew undefeated, against all opponents. Pilch said: "In every test we did, the Raptors just blew the competition out of the water."
