dogfight
Sign in to saveAlso known as dog fight, airfight, air fight, aerial combat, air combat (close-range), air battle, aerial battle
thumb|An General Dynamics F-16 Fighting Falcon|F-16 Fighting Falcon and an F-14 Tomcat engaged in a mock dogfight as part of U.S. Navy TOPGUN training
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- Etymology
- History
- Mexican Revolution
- World War I
- Spanish Civil War
- World War II
- Strategies for fighter development
- Dogfighting over Europe
- Soviet fighters
- Second Sino-Japanese War
- United States and Japan
- Technology
- Propaganda
- Korean War
- Vietnam War
- Arab–Israeli Wars
- Indo-Pakistani War of 1965
- Indo-Pakistani War of 1971
- Gulf of Sidra Incidents
- Falklands War
- Iran–Iraq War and helicopter dogfight
- Persian Gulf War
- Balkans conflict
- Eritrean–Ethiopian War (1998–2000)
- 2019 Indo-Pakistan aerial skirmish
- 2026 Iran war
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thumb|An General Dynamics F-16 Fighting Falcon|F-16 Fighting Falcon and an F-14 Tomcat engaged in a mock dogfight as part of U.S. Navy TOPGUN training
A dogfight, or dog fight, is an aerial battle between fighter aircraft that is conducted at close range. Modern terminology for air-to-air combat is air combat manoeuvring (ACM), which refers to tactical situations requiring the use of individual basic fighter maneuvers (BFM) to attack or evade one or more opponents. This differs from aerial warfare, which deals with the strategy involved in planning and executing various missions.