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Modern Era Fighter Aces, can only be attained in training flights with non lethal simulated weapons?
The only countries that field state of the art fighters are mostly allies, with a couple of exceptions.
It would seem that the only way for fighter pilots to score enough kills in actual dog fights or squaring off in fighter to fighter combat would be in the form of training flights.
Would a single shot from a fighter's gun be enough to disable a foe's fighter? Considering most fighters hose their targets in bursts of fire from their vulcan.
Which fighters still carry auto-cannon? As MIGs used to have them, but are there any MIG's in service today?
Do any of the friendly nations who have their own Air Force/Naval fighters, square off for the purpose of keeping their pilot's fighter skills honed or do they just keep their training in house?
Consider Randy Cunningham, first missile ace of the Vietnam War. (There were only five American Aces during the entire war.)
To be an Ace you need five confirmed shoot downs of enemy planes. Not just enemy planes but fighter planes. It does not count if you shoot down a transport or even a bomber, it has to be an enemy fighter.
Considering that we can now shoot down enemy planes at 50+ miles and they can do the same, it will be very hard to confirm shoot downs. And it will not be a mass of our fighters vs theirs as both sides will have rather limited numbers. Add to that the surface to air missiles and who is to know what shot down what?
I think in the future we will not see any more Aces, unless you allow them to count any enemy aircraft, even old WW II prop jobs, Helicopters, UAVs and carrier pigeons.
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