Man, don’t they teach the sandwich and the defensive split to those Air Force pilots?
Its a movie for IMAX. I don’t kn ow the version of the F-16, but the F-15 had LATIRN pods, so they must have been F-15 Strike Eagles. I can only speculate, but the F-15 behaved like they where carring bombs. BUt you are right. They should have tried to bracket the guy.