[BwanaNdege]

Except one: dogfighting. In that scenario, it was a miserable failure.

Yom Kippur War "Israeli Phantoms shot down 85 Arab combat aircraft, mostly MiG-21s, for a kill-loss ratio in aerial combat of 17-1 during the war."

http://www.conservapedia.com/F-4_Phantom

[Ol' Dan Tucker]

Yom Kippur War "Israeli Phantoms shot down 85 Arab combat aircraft, mostly MiG-21s, for a kill-loss ratio in aerial combat of 17-1 during the war."

What tactics were used? Air-to-Air missiles or close-in dogfighting?