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Originally Posted by CaptainCrunch
That maneuver is called the Cobra. Its a tough move to defeat, and it allows the aircraft to fire a missile at a plane in pursuit.
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Tough to defeat? Not so much - it destroys your speed advantage, greatly limiting what you can do in the vertical plane, and opens you up for a shot from your pursuer’s wingman.
Also, I highly doubt, and there is evidence on the web to corroborate this, that you could do it with weapons on the hardpoints, so it would be a guns only maneuver at best. If an SU-27 was guns only, I’d simply disengage and work the target with missiles from a safe distance
Now excuse me, I have a volleyball game to go play
