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Before Vietnam, the USAF seemed pretty convinced that the future of manned air combat was Go Fast In A Straight Line And Shoot Missiles. Then ratty little MiGs starting taking out Thuds and Phantoms and suddenly dogfighting guns and dogfighting shorter-range AAMs started looking a lot better. Without Vietnam, the USAF may have ended up with things like the Lockheed F-12B and descendants of the North American F-108.


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