Originally posted by citanon
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The perch setups at about the 6:00 mark shows nicely what real BFM looks like, and why the extreme close spacing of the fight scenes in Top Gun are simply bogus. The flight lead is counting down the thousands of feet, with the "fight's on" call at 6,000' or about a mile.
Data linking is replacing much of this, and stealth technology, and the long stick in the AIM-120 and equivalent, is replacing post-merge ACM.
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