It’s a real eye opener to read “Introduction to airborne radar” by Gearge W. Stimson. He explaines alot about AESA radars and what benefits you get with them… It’s well worth reading before you start telling people what aircraft would win…

One thing most people here forget is what threats the respective aircraft were built to handle. Perhaps the Mig-25 wasn’t suppoused to fight F-18’s but rather fight F-4’s. It’s kind of like it is with political economics (driving forward but seeing only what’s in the rearview-mirror) You’ll never know if you succeded or failed until it’s too late to fix it. What kind of threat could emerge that renders the F-22 useless (besides “assymetric warfare”)??????
Establishing performace parameters for a new fighter is one thing, but you have to establish economic parameters as well before you figure out how to do it and if you want to go at it alone. Somewhere in those calculations you should have at least an idea of how many planes you need to buy to get the desired combined combat effect and singular combat effect.
The USA has chosen to buy the F-22 but it doesn’t seem like anyone cares if they get a hundred or a thousand of them as long as they get F-22’s instead of F-15’s.

I saw someone commenting on the staggering scores of WWII german aces, something about a targetrich environment and poorly trained opponents etc;
The luftwaffe had no rotation like the RAF so many pilots got alot of kills during the battle of Britain for instance… I don’t know if the Luftwaffe changed that policy. Marseille fought in north Africa againts british, commonwelth and americans equipped with Hurricanes, Spitfires, P-40’s and other types used there.

Finally, internet is not a reliable source of information! You can write what ever you want, it does not have to be true, it could be a flat out lie since the “publisher” is not lialbe like they would be if they printed it! There is no need for factchecking if it’s going to be on someone elses server(New York Times would of course be liable for what they publish on their server if it could be taken as facts as opposed to oppinions) I have read at least two different quotes on what the F-14D’s top speed is and the USN adds to the confution by having a third listed on their website… there’s internet litterature for you.