Reaction Of F 16 Pilot After Seeing SU 27 Doing Cobra Maneuver

[vostok]

 

[war&peace]

Give it to a senior Indian AF pilot and see how it fails The ultimate crash tester team in the world with an astounding track record.

 

[SipahSalar]

Great maneuver but how useful is it in an actual battle?

 

[War Thunder]

Great maneuver but how useful is it in an actual battle?

once can always amaze the enemy pilot by the stunt to not shoot them down?
just like some folk dance it out to earn life...

be it the guardians of the galaxy or the famous basanti in our neighborhood.

 

[Windjammer]

Great for air show demonstrations but has no benefits in real combat, an aircraft hanging in the air, out of power and energy is a sitting duck for anyone our there with a decent AAMs.

 

[war&peace]

Great for air show demonstrations but has no benefits in real combat, an aircraft hanging in the air, out of power and energy is a sitting duck for anyone our there with a decent AAMs.

The manoeuvre itself may not be so useful other than demos in airshows but it is a manifestation of the superior aerodynamic design. Seems like it is playing with the air and can take very quick turns... if in the hands of a skilled pilot of course.

 

[waqasmwi]

Pugachev's Cobra. See 0:27-0:31 and 0:50-0:55

Great for air show demonstrations but has no benefits in real combat, an aircraft hanging in the air, out of power and energy is a sitting duck for anyone our there with a decent AAMs.

Try to learn admiring those thing you don't possess. Cobra manuver can be very helpful for breaking radar lock and thus can be proved very deadly.

 

[Windjammer]

Pugachev's Cobra. See 0:27-0:31 and 0:50-0:55

Try to learn admiring those thing you don't possess. Cobra manuver can be very helpful for breaking radar lock and thus can be proved very deadly.

There's a difference between admiring a performance and talking practicality.
Military experts are of opinion that such demos at low speed are very impressive but try executing them at combat speeds, apart from rattling up the instruments, the pilot will likely snap his harness and smash his face on the front panel.

 

[Aasimkhan]

An AMRAAM will kill it from 100 km even if it does 10 cobra maneuvers one after other so it's useless in combat

Pugachev's Cobra. See 0:27-0:31 and 0:50-0:55

Try to learn admiring those thing you don't possess. Cobra manuver can be very helpful for breaking radar lock and thus can be proved very deadly.

Who told you cobra will unlock a radar lock?

Great maneuver but how useful is it in an actual battle?

In BVR regime it's useless. In close combat it may have some utility

 

[loanranger]

The IAF pilots call it the stall manouver.
They dream of preforming it because succesful execution results in a warm cup of tea a few moments later.

 

[Yaseen1]

bvr is not 100 percent accurate,it is like sam ,close combat has its own value and it results in very less time available for jet to outmaneuver missile fired unlike in bvr mode when jet has enough time to detect missile launched if it has good sensors and radars and data link so it may increase speed if it is capable of reaching higher speed than bvr missile like u.s blackbird did with nkorea missile launched from surface to air

An AMRAAM will kill it from 100 km even if it does 10 cobra maneuvers one after other so it's useless in combat


Who told you cobra will unlock a radar lock?


In BVR regime it's useless. In close combat it may have some utility

 

[Aasimkhan]

bvr is not 100 percent accurate,it is like sam ,close combat has its own value and it results in very less time available for jet to outmaneuver missile fired unlike in bvr mode when jet has enough time to detect missile launched if it has good sensors and radars and data link so it may increase speed if it is capable of reaching higher speed than bvr missile like u.s blackbird did with nkorea missile launched from surface to air

There is no sr71 in this area, don't quote hypothetical cases

 

[Fenrir]

Try to learn admiring those thing you don't possess. Cobra manuver can be very helpful for breaking radar lock and thus can be proved very deadly.

You're going to break a radar lock... by presenting the entire unstealthy underside of an SU-35 to an oncoming radar guided missile?

Who told you cobra will unlock a radar lock?

The Cobra maneuver has been cited as a potential countermeasure to Doppler radars, which have difficultly tracking objects with near zero velocity, often ignoring them as clutter. Most fighter radars are pulse-Doppler.

In practice that kind of fancy dancing just gets you shot down.

 

[Aasimkhan]

You're going to break a radar lock... by presenting the entire unstealthy underside of an SU-35 to an oncoming radar guided missile?

The Cobra maneuver has been cited as a potential countermeasure to Doppler radars, which have difficultly tracking objects with near zero velocity, often ignoring them as clutter. Most fighter radars are pulse-Doppler.

In practice that kind of fancy dancing just gets you shot down.

100% agreed. Even pulse Doppler radar takes a few seconds to release the lock on a moving target when it suddenly becomes static. And by the way in reality SU 30 never get static as it starts falling down the.moment it initiates the meanover so there is more likelihood it's getting shot than releasing the radar lock.

 

[hasnainfirst]

Do this in actual dogfight for a second and watch the fireworks , i'm sure you'll love it