Originally Posted by Mach Two
Not quite. Speed is life. But if you want to turn (i.e. in a visual, turning fight), you need to be at corner velocity. Much above that and you're g-limited with an ever increasing radius and decreasing turn rate as you get faster. Your oppo arcs you and you catch a rocket up the jet pipe.
Although, I completely agree on academic and conservative levels, I think the question of pulling angular distances in the traditional sense in a HOBS environment is rather a not so clear cut point.
In a HOBS fight you may want to keep the distance from the shooter, not so much be at a corner speed but rather at high speed, to both rapidly engage the target and defeat the incoming missile.
I suspect, both F22 and Typhoon were designed to operate in supersonic with that in mind.