SNIP

IME, the best BFM machine in the US inventory is the Hornet.

Certainly the best in a high alpha, min radius phone booth. OTOH, the
F-14B/D can move the fight inexorably upward to a kill. Hard to do,
wasteful of gas and time (to say nothing of what this kind of engagement
looks like to everyone else near the arena), but doable. In a real-world
multi-bogey fight, such a dazzling display would probably result in two
fireballs.

R / John