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  • USAF F-22 at Avalon 2023

    From lindsay@3:633/280.2 to All on Fri Mar 3 17:35:12 2023
    awesome. If you cant turn tight, you've lost the fight... Raptor wins.

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

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  • From Daryl@3:633/280.2 to All on Fri Mar 3 23:11:00 2023
    On 3/3/2023 5:35 pm, lindsay wrote:
    ˙awesome. If you cant turn tight, you've lost the fight... Raptor wins.

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


    What an incredible bit of kit, no wonder the Yanks won't sell them to
    anyone.
    Saw another video of a RAAF Super Hornet and it was also pretty impressive.
    I'm betting my 2 grandsons will both want to be fighter pilots after tomorrow:-)


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    Daryl


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  • From keithr0@3:633/280.2 to All on Tue Mar 7 17:04:04 2023
    On 3/03/2023 4:35 pm, lindsay wrote:
    ˙awesome. 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@3:633/280.2 to All on Wed Mar 8 11:55:44 2023
    On 7/03/2023 5:04 pm, keithr0 wrote:
    On 3/03/2023 4:35 pm, lindsay wrote:
    ˙˙awesome. 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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