What are the reasons for the end of the dogfight era?
Primarily this was driven by the invention of the guided missile which can be deployed far outside the range of bullets (making them a standoff weapon) and which can actively track the target autonomously (&quot;shoot and forget&quot;).
With these two features, it no longer became necessary to maneuver close enough to another plane to shoot it down with bullets and to accurately track the target aircraft with one's own aircraft while doing so- which made WWI and WWII dogfighting skills unnecessary.