High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The Fighter Mafia was a group of U.S. Air Force officers and civilian defense analysts who, in the 1970s, advocated the use of John Boyd's Energy-Maneuverability (E-M) theory to develop fighter aircraft. The theory enabled quantitative one-to-one comparison of the performance of aircraft in terms of air combat maneuvering, and identified deficiencies with both designs in service and proposed designs of the time. They influenced the specifications of the F-X, and went on to independently develop specifications for the Light Weight Fighter. The nickname, a professional jest coined by an Air Force member of Italian heritage, was a rejoinder to the "Bomber Mafia", theorists at the Air Corps Tactical School in the 1930s whose ideas led to the primacy of strategic bombing over the fighter within the Air Force. The Fighter Mafia was instrumental in a return to air-combat maneouvrability as the defining quality of fighter planes after the Vietnam...

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