From what I understand the SU is bigger, has more range, and can top out a little faster than the f-16. It also has thrust vectoring so it can maneuver pretty well in a dogfight.
The f-16 is cheaper to run and more reliable, and since it’s smaller and lighter it’s hard to spot and can still maneuver with the best of them.
Tbh, all aerial combat should be done in open cockpit biplanes with the pilots shooting revolvers at one another. It’s supposed to be all elegant and shit like jousting in the sky, so let’s get some treaties done and live as the lord intended.
I grew up outside NYC in the 80’s and every summer my parents took me & my brother upstate to the Old Rhinebeck Aerodrome where they still fly vintage aircraft from the WWI era. Looking at that website it looks like they still put on their “WWI Dog Fight Spectacular” show, which is something that still makes me smile.
From what I understand the SU is bigger, has more range, and can top out a little faster than the f-16. It also has thrust vectoring so it can maneuver pretty well in a dogfight.
The f-16 is cheaper to run and more reliable, and since it’s smaller and lighter it’s hard to spot and can still maneuver with the best of them.
Fighters don’t dogfight anymore, they lob a2a missiles at each other from beyond visual range.
And yet wing tipping and aerial gunners in prop planes are back.
https://youtu.be/GrzzYTXgnMQ
Tbh, all aerial combat should be done in open cockpit biplanes with the pilots shooting revolvers at one another. It’s supposed to be all elegant and shit like jousting in the sky, so let’s get some treaties done and live as the lord intended.
I grew up outside NYC in the 80’s and every summer my parents took me & my brother upstate to the Old Rhinebeck Aerodrome where they still fly vintage aircraft from the WWI era. Looking at that website it looks like they still put on their “WWI Dog Fight Spectacular” show, which is something that still makes me smile.
Oh for sure that’s mainly obsolete, I’m just stating the main differences that I’ve read about them.
F-16s did have a cannon. Don’t know if that was removed in later blocks.
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