True, Kryptonite, dogfighting is technically about more than just turning, but the guys are talking mainly about the prop plane's ability to supposedly 'turn better', and I was trying to despell that myth.
Araqiel, I personally have no idea how high a heat signature has to be for an IR missile to find a prop plane, but with today's technology, I'm sure someone could build an IR missile that could lock on to a piston engine's heat sig.
Also, from the little I know, I have come to believe that a little prop plane still has large enough of an RCS to detected by a radar-guided missile. The older WWII fighters have no 'stealth'/low-observable tech, as they are, for one thing, full of 90 degree angles in their panels, and were easily detectable by the comparatively primitive WWII radar systems, so I highly doubt today's radar-guided tech would have any trouble following a prop plane.
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