Okay, staying clear of the dogfighting debate, and starting a new thread after browsing Neptunus Lex's site. This is where the Raptor gunsight pics began to appear on the internet, and Lex is still currently serving in the USN. Lex is also a Top Gun trained adversary pilot, with flight time in the F/A-18, A-4, F-5E and F-16N. There's quite a bit in his blog, but here's one particular post I found amusing.
If Airplanes were Women.
http://www.neptunuslex.com/2003/12/0...es-were-women/
As Lex has time in both machines, I found it an enlightning article. Keep in mind the Navy flew the F-16N strictly as an adversary aircraft, therefore it was much more manuverable then heavily loaded Air Force Vipers. The Navy flew them so hard that they had to retire them in the early 90s due to wing cracks. However, the Viper has been re-added to the Navy's adversary fleet from embargoed Pakistani F-16s, which are straight Vipers rather then specially constructed adversary machines.
So folks, along this thead, lets do more of these comparisons.
Skysurfer808