I'm not against modeling. I'm just not sure that you can come up with an accurate coefficient without hard tested data.
Mathematical model of air-to-air combat and loses
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I'm not against modeling. I'm just not sure that you can come up with an accurate coefficient without hard tested data.
Jura The idiot
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Fortunately, there hasn't been any squadron(s)-of-fighters-to-squadron(s)-of-fighters encounter since ... I'm not sure, maybe during the Iran–Iraq War; or did any large-scale air-to-air conflict happen afterwards? About the Gulf War the paper (p. 65) says "In the most impressive demonstration of aerial dominance, the coalition air forces of Desert Storm, led by the US Air Force and US Navy, shut down the Iraqi ability to wage aerial warfare, guaranteeing the successful liberation of Kuwait."
Serbia and Kosovo are probably the closest we'll get to a prolonged engagement between two relatively modern air forces. That's where I imagine they started with as a baseline to estimate the coefficients. Georgia and Russia might also be looked at, but that's really it to my knowledge.
Jura The idiot
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then, latenlazy, please tell me what were the true NATO losses during the Kosovo war (results from a google search start at the oficial 1 F-16 + 1 F-117 and end at thirty maybe), thanks! and I'm curious about the numbers for the Serbian Air Force too
Don't have that on hand XP. You're going to have to do some searching...then, latenlazy, please tell me what were the true NATO losses during the Kosovo war (results from a google search start at the oficial 1 F-16 + 1 F-117 and end at thirty maybe), thanks! and I'm curious about the numbers for the Serbian Air Force too
Jura The idiot
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c'mon, latenlazy, tell us what you think the true losses were, both sides: