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Getting tally must have been a pain. The times I've fought F-5s have always been a bitch to maintain sight. As soon as they turn nose on it's no joy. I can imagine the 21 is very similar.
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Typical Soviet junk.
Very short range fighter.
I sat in one and fought them in training.
It had for it's time very good slow speed handling. But if you chose not to get slow with it, it was dead meat, assuming it survived to the merge due to lawyers.
Getting tally must have been a pain. The times I've fought F-5s have always been a bitch to maintain sight. As soon as they turn nose on it's no joy. I can imagine the 21 is very similar.
It wasn't really an issue, during the visual setups either high aspect or perch.
BVR, I of course came in low. No trouble seeing him against a blue desert sky. I only ever did 1v1 so getting and keeping a visual was not all that complicated.
The Flogger was harder to see because he had such a huge turn radius, I think he ended up in the next state most of the time