May 30, 2019
They Say the F-35 Won't Have to Dogfight. History Tells Us That's a Lie.
by War Is Boring
The new missile technology coincided with a shift in doctrine. The Pentagon decided that in future wars, jet fighters would climb high and fly fast to target Soviet long-range bombers, striving to hit them from far away before they could drop their atomic bombs.
The aerial dogfight was not supposed to happen. On May 20, 1967, eight U.S. Air Force F-4C fighters were patrolling over North Vietnam when they spotted as many as 15 enemy MiG-17 fighters a short distance away.
Fog and the MiGs’ low altitude had prevented the F-4s from detecting the North Vietnamese jets from farther away.
https://nationalinterest.org/blog/buzz/they-say-f-35-wont-have-dogfight-history-tells-us-thats-lie-60097
