> fight an actual war against an enemy with an air force Like Iraq? Or Afghanistan? Or do you mean an air force that's at least somewhat comparable to ours, li

> fight an actual war against an enemy with an air force Like Iraq? Or Afghanistan? Or do you mean an air force that's at least somewhat comparable to ours, like Russia or China? Case one is that we're up against an enemy with a drastically inferior air force, in which case WVR is never going to happen. Their air capability will be devastated whether on the ground or in the air. Case two is that we're up against a country with a powerful air force. Assuming we're somehow tiptoeing around the issue of full-blown nuclear war, we're now talking about a situation where combat is somehow happening hundreds of miles away from either side's radar-guided mobile SAM systems (Russia's S-400 has an operational range of at least 400km), both sides have managed to evade multiple BVR missile launches per airframe, both sides have an equal number of jets in the engagement, and the area objective is so important that it's worth gambling multiple $50+ million jets on. Do you realize how comically implausible this scenario is? If you can think of a more realistic situation in which the US will actually engage their fighter jets in dogfighting, I’m all ears.