When I went through UPT in the early '90s immediately post GWI, our flight commander was an F15C guy from the 33rd Nomads - they of 'combat kill' legend.
On one of the many weather days at Columbus, one of the young studs asked what it was like to dogfight the other blue air. The reply was something along the lines of, "Take them vertical until they run out of energy, then roll in and kill them."
He said some of the very early F16A models had some built in software that was smarter than the pilot and would "recover" by rolling to the nearest horizon once it got too slow.
He said the F14 would swing its wings out once it got low on energy.
He said the F18 was the hardest to tell, so you just took them up until they couldn't stand it anymore.
He also told me their bold face/CAP was pretty simple, "Throttle good engine - as required".
