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How does an F-16 "tail" a Cessna without stalling???

I'm calling BS on this one. Maybe if the Cessna is in a maximum-speed dive can the F-16s fly next to it at a similar speed, long enough to get a glance in the cockpit, But at cruise, even full power, no way.




You are right that there is no way in the world that the F-16 can fly the same speed as a Cessna 172. I guess that the spokesman may have been oversimplifying what was going on.
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