While this is very true I didn't say every, I said average, I think it's pretty accurate to say that most every current F-15, F-18, F-whatever pilot has not "smoked a MIG" during their career.
Absolutely - and it will probably never be this way - but that is not the way we train, and this is not a type of philosophy that we live by - don't worry it, it will be the other guy.
Every pilot who carries an air-to-air weapos trains to put himself in that very position. What makes the two pilots different? Circumstance.
Also I suspect that a war with China or Korea would have a lot less aerial battles than one might suspect, if I were to venture a guess I'd say a DDG-1000 and a pair of Arsenal Ships parked next to it off the coast of China would be enough to take down most of the Chinese Air Force (should they decide to all be in the air at the same time).
I guess we will just have to agree that we disagree on the shape of any future conventional battle between our countries then. Let us hope that we never have to find out who was right.
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