By this time, dogfighting techniques had fallen out of favor in U.S. training doctrines, as missiles were considered to be all that was necessary to shoot down the big bombers expected to be deployed by the Soviet Union.
På dette tidspunkt var dogfighting forsvundet fra USAFs træningsdoktriner, eftersom man mente, at det kun var nødvedigt med missiler til at nedskyde de store bombefly, som man forventede, at Sovjetunionen ville sende.