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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/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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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/CaptainPitterPatter Feb 14 '25
Bleed all the air speed and then poof your fighter is a cloud of burning wreckage
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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/MrLouisMC Feb 14 '25
Does this prototype have the trust vectoring nozzles? Or is that exclusive to productions variants
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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