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  1. Simple answer is not quite yet Tactics and weapons have advanced and its more efficient to knock out the enemies assets on the ground than fighting them in the air Using EW assets to disrupt the enemies radar while cruise missiles attack the base. Depending on size of the runway, and number of defenses 15 missiles normally is enough to put it out of action . While combat engineers can repair the damage to runway. those aircraft are still trapped on ground defenseless which allows attacking aircraft time to get close enough with bombs and finish the job Depending on assets, they may just target them with missiles. AWACS, Aerial tankers , transports and EW assets targets that militaries would expend a cruise missile on because of the significant loss of capabilities it would be the enemy Most of your aerial combat is going to be from bases stationed deeper in enemy territory that attacking forces can't easily reach but even then ,they are still going to try their best to catch them on ground than in air.
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  2. The odds you are not going to see very much dog fighting in modern warfare The development of hypersonic weapons has made dogfighting moot You are not going to see F-35s versus F-16s they will be fighting Russian Su-27/33/35,57 and MiGs as well Chinese Su-27/ Su-35s and J-series Pound for pound, the F-35 has all advantages The US has Su-27s and MIGs which are used for training Thanks to Ukraine and Russian stupidity, The US also has sensitive tech from that Su-35 that pancaked into the field Example An EA-18 can jam the enemy radar while B-1s with ARRWs launch from 400 miles out An ARRW at its designed speed can cover that distance in 1 min 35 sec A B-1 can target defenses as well runways and taxi ways With those damaged, the enemy has to wait for combat engineers to repair the damage so they can get their planes in the air With defenses destroyed ,the enemy air force can be destroyed on the ground by F-35s up close or with coordinated strike with TLAMs or JASSMs Combat engineers have to clear the rumble, fill the holes and cover it matting , by time they get a hole filled, the strike second would be on them Even if they had assets in the air , The EA-18G and B-1 can leave before they get in range With China once their DFs are destroyed, the PLAN/PLAAF problems will increase The USAF can launch ARRWs from stand off range against their DFs and the only way to stop them is send their fighters out to 1000 miles which is exactly what the USAF/USN want them to do The PLAN/PLAAF aerial refueling capability is limited while the USAF/USN has ample tankers so it long range fight is advantageous for USAF/USN
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