Dogfight
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A dogfight, or dog fight, is an aerial battle between fighter aircraft, conducted at close range. Dogfighting first occurred in Mexico in 1913, shortly after the invention of the airplane. Until at least 1992, it was a component in every major war, despite beliefs after World War II that increasingly greater speeds and longer range weapons would make dogfighting obsolete.
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See also
- Aerial warfare
- Aerobatic maneuvers
- Battle of Britain
- Immelmann turn
- List of aircraft shootdowns
- Lufbery circle
- Post–World War II air-to-air combat losses
- Split S
- Thach Weave
- The Scissors
- Whifferdill turn
- Dicta Boelcke
- John Boyd (military strategist)
- Erich Hartmann
- Robin Olds
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