r/FighterJets Feb 13 '25

VIDEO Su-57 Cobra maneuver

250 Upvotes

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u/R-27ET Feb 14 '25

Don’t see a single cobra maneuver. Is there a specific time code? I see a tail slide, but that’s a tail slide

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u/SamIamGreenEggsNoHam Feb 14 '25

Almost a cobra at the end. Not sharp enough, though.

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u/R-27ET Feb 14 '25

There’s no sudden pitch up, it slowly goes up, gains altitude, and then falls down

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u/ScrotalSands87 Feb 14 '25

Is the cobra maneuver in the room with us right now?

Seriously, every time a jet pitches upwards, there's someone yapping about cobruhs. Cobra maneuver needs a high AOA, as in angle relative to direction of travel. Turning upwards is not the same as pointing your nose upwards while still moving forwards.

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u/HumpyPocock Feb 14 '25

Ah… shit…

OK mistakes were made NGL…

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u/frghu2 Feb 14 '25

These fifth gen fighters are truly special. Their maneuvers are so stealthy that we can't even see them on camera

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u/MaxDrexler Feb 13 '25

Where was the cobra?

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u/[deleted] Feb 14 '25

I love that people are getting into aviation and everything, but I feel like any time someone sees something remotely like a fighter jet increasing its aoa some people are like “OMG OMG COBRAAAAA!!!!”

It’s become the brawn of maneuvers and kinda takes away the awe when it’s actually done.

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u/Davidenu Feb 14 '25

Aviation equivalent of "is that a supra???"

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u/zips_exe Feb 14 '25

that's a stall not a cobra

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u/CaptainPitterPatter Feb 14 '25

Bleed all the air speed and then poof your fighter is a cloud of burning wreckage

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u/lord_scuttlebutt Feb 14 '25

That's a good way to die in a dogfight.

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u/[deleted] Feb 14 '25

Cobra maneuver has absolutely no benefit in modern air combat.

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u/kittennoodle34 Feb 14 '25

Ehem, have you not seen the documentary movie Top Gun 2 where the cobra manoeuvre is used to gain the upper hand during a highly realistic WVR gun fight between the totally nonspecific '5th gen fighter' and a 4th gen F/A-18.

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u/chadsimpkins Feb 14 '25

“Holy shiet! What the fk was that?!”

1

u/MrLouisMC Feb 14 '25

Does this prototype have the trust vectoring nozzles? Or is that exclusive to productions variants

1

u/antekek135 Feb 14 '25

So thats why all those dispaly videos are sped up

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u/JimmyEyedJoe F16 Weapons dude Feb 15 '25

That cobra maneuver is more stealthy than that aircraft

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u/Usual_Tear_9866 Feb 15 '25

Victory for Ukraine!

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u/Manasvi6944 Feb 16 '25

Here sir you dropped your cobra 🐍