WEBF
"Three F15s did not win even one dogfight with the SHARS tonight."
Night doggers - whoa! Guess the rules have changed a lot since I was on the Front Line :-) Did night BFM by 'accident' once (well, dusk) - when I started assessing bandit aspect by looking at the apparent length of his burner plumes I thought it would be a good idea to stop - now a Shar would have had the upper hand there, no burner plumes for the opponent to assess aspect with!
Always found the Shar dues really really good at BVR stuff (got my ass kicked by them many times in the past) but desperately poor (due to the aircraft, not the driver - usually!) at 'Dogfighting' as your, obviously well informed (!), friend called it.
But, IMHO, one mish is not the whole story - people have bad days, whole formations have kit problems, GCI problems, tanker faffs etc etc - and this often completely turns the tables on the 'on paper' predictions. Don't get me wrong - I'm not 'anti-Shar', I'm just saying that one 'floor mop' is great to brag about in the bar - but (IMHE) you need to look at it within the big picture of things.
All the best,
MT