• Re: USAF F-22 at Avalon 2023

    From keithr0@user@account.invalid to aus.aviation on Tue Mar 7 16:04:04 2023
    From Newsgroup: aus.aviation

    On 3/03/2023 4:35 pm, lindsay wrote:
    -aawesome. If you cant turn tight, you've lost the fight... Raptor wins.

    Not so much these days with A-A missiles with a 300 mile range. Stealth
    is the thing, if you can see him and fire your missile before he sees
    you, you win.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XRMv0yM89t4

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  • From lindsay@nope@nunnya.business.com.au to aus.aviation on Wed Mar 8 11:55:44 2023
    From Newsgroup: aus.aviation

    On 7/03/2023 5:04 pm, keithr0 wrote:
    On 3/03/2023 4:35 pm, lindsay wrote:
    -a-aawesome. If you cant turn tight, you've lost the fight... Raptor wins.

    Not so much these days with A-A missiles with a 300 mile range. Stealth
    is the thing, if you can see him and fire your missile before he sees
    you, you win.

    hence Wedgetail.

    I was really meaning in a *dogfight*, as that line was used when the
    USAF debuted the F35 with Ricardo Trevan (from memory) at Avalon so many
    years ago

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XRMv0yM89t4


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