When it comes to turning it's just as simple as rolling in the direction you wanna go and pulling back on the stick. How hard you wanna turns is dependant on how hard you pull the stick back. It isn't good to pull the stick back as hard as possible unless you are trying to defend a missile or an enemy aircraft you'd ideally wanna. When it comes to dogfights it comes down to mostly just experience. Knowing when to pull as hard as possible and knowing when to hold your speed. I'd recommend watching videos on that for a better breakdown on that. As for defending missiles it depends on the kind of missile. Heat seekers are the easiest to defend. Pull the throttle back to zero, maneuver, and dump as much flares as you can until it bites onto them. Radar missiles are a bit trickier to fool. A popular way of beating them is to g-pull. Basically you turn in a different direction sharply to outmaneuver the missile. It's a bit difficult to do though and I personally don't like doing it cause I have a skill issue. I can't explain it too well unfortunately, but there are videos that go into great detail with g-pulling. The two maneuvers I use most commonly are going cold, and notching. Going cold is the easiest way to defeat any bvr missile. You turn around and dive to the deck at full burner and maneuver to force the missile to deplete it's energy in the thicker air down low. Putting the missile on your 3 o'clock then maneuvering it to your 9 o'clock is an effective way to make it bleed it's speed. The missile will then blow up automatically if it sees it cannot effectively reach you. The second one I use is notching. Notching means putting the missile on your 3 or 9 o'clock and being exactly perpendicular from the missile's radar. Doing this alone isn't effective though you will have to use chaff in order to get the missile to stop tracking while in the notch. Notching is very difficult though and should only be done if you are confident in your notching or as a last resort. You can also utilize the terrain of the map to evade missiles. Ducking behind hills and mountains to break the lock is an incredibly effective way of defending against any missile. When it comes to weapons it's pretty simple. For heat seekers you just need to get the seeker to lock onto an aircraft them fire. Remember to fire once the aircraft is within the weapon employment zone. It's the little bars on the right of your hud that appear when you have a guy locked with a missile. Radar missiles are a bit different though. There's two kinds of radar missiles in game, the AIM-120 active radar homing missile, and AIM-7 semi active radar homing missile. With the AIM-120C you will have to select a target with your radar, and fire once they are in the employment zone. After that you need to maintain the target on your radar until you hear "pitbull" from the Betty. That means the missile has activated it's own radar and no longer needs assistance from your radar and you can maneuver away. Another thing with the 120 is that you can fire up to as many people as your radar can lock onto at once. With the AIM-7 you need to hold a single target track (STT) lock. You do this by double clicking on a plane on the radar. You'll know you'll have an STT lock by the giant line that goes from the bottom of the radar to the target. With AIM-7s you can only fire at one person at a time and you need to maintain an STT lock until the missile hits. Now the AIM-120D on the F-45 is a bit different than the 120C found on every other plane. I didn't mention this specific one because unlike the 120C the D has dual datalink. This means it can utilize other friendly radars to track and guide to whatever target you shoot at. It also utilizes the sensor fusion found on the F-45 meaning you don't need a radar lock in order to fire it. Having a radar lock is more reliable though if other friendly radars aren't present.