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11th September 2015 | 08:59

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PAX_Britannica

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Originally Posted by Joint!!!!eFighter

To be honest, is any aeroplane invincible? The aircraft can only do so much. If an inexperienced pilot recently out of training is up against a 3,000+ hour pilot, then the aircraft he is flying isn't going to make much of a difference. He is probably going to lose that fight....

While that seems to be conventional wisdom, and has been for a long time, I wonder if the performance of Iranian F-14A's in the Iran-Iraq war is a counterexample ?

Persian Cats- page 1 | Military Aviation | Air & Space Magazine
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grumman_F-14_Tomcat#Iran

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