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What (who) is dogfight - definition

COMBAT BETWEEN AIRCRAFT, CONDUCTED AT CLOSE RANGE
Air to air combat; Dog fight; Dogfighting; Dog fights; Dogfighter; Dog fighter; Dog-fights; Dogfights in World War I
  • Memorial erected by German airmen in [[Sheria]], [[India]], in memory of British and Australian airmen killed in their lines during 1917
  • ''An Incident on the Western Front'', view of a dogfight involving five aircraft. In the upper foreground a [[biplane]] of the [[Royal Flying Corps]] flies towards a stricken
German biplane, which is falling towards the ground leaving a trail of smoke in its wake ([[Imperial War Museum]]).
  • TOPGUN]] training
  • F/A-18 Hornet]] during dogfight simulations
  • [[Contrail]]s from dogfights between American and Japanese aircraft during the 1944 [[Battle of the Philippine Sea]]
  • F-15 Eagle]]'s dogfighting capabilities
  • F-86 Sabre]] piloted by American ace pilot [[Manuel J. Fernandez]] during the [[Korean War]], either 1952 or 1953
  • MiG-17]] during the [[Vietnam War]], June 1967
  • F-86 Sabre]] being shot down in combat by an [[Indian Air Force]] [[Folland Gnat]], September 1965
  • A [[Royal Air Force]] [[Supermarine Spitfire]] pursuing a [[Luftwaffe]] [[Heinkel He 111]] during the [[Battle of Britain]]

dogfight         
also dog fight (dogfights)
1.
A dogfight is a fight between fighter planes, in which they fly close to one another and move very fast.
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2.
If you say that organizations or people are involved in a dogfight, you mean they are struggling very hard against each other in order to succeed.
The three leading contenders were locked in a dogfight.
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dogfight         
¦ noun
1. a close combat between military aircraft.
2. a ferocious struggle or fight.
Derivatives
dogfighter noun
dogfighting noun
dogfight         
n.
aerial combat
to engage in a dogfight

Wikipedia

Dogfight

A dogfight, or dog fight, is an aerial battle between fighter aircraft 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.

Dogfighting first occurred during the Mexican Revolution in 1913, shortly after the invention of the airplane. It was a component in every major war, though with steadily declining frequency, until the end of the Cold War in the early 1990s. Since then, longer-range weapons such as beyond-visual-range missiles have made dogfighting largely obsolete.

Examples of use of dogfight
1. Apparently you have to be a dogfight promoter for that.
2. A third plane involved in the dogfight simulation landed safely.
3. Now the dogfight is happening in the public glare.
4. "I think that‘s where you‘re going to see the next dogfight," Reid predicted.
5. The dogfight that had approached the Finnish border was also noticed from the ground.