On May 9, 4:57*pm, Dan wrote:
Douglas Eagleson wrote:

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The russian mig-30 that literally stops in mid

flight and recovers, is another example. A forward canard allows this.

* * The "cobra" maneuver is not a very good combat move. Do a simple
free body diagram to see what happens to acceleration and velocity
vectors. The MiG is a sitting duck throughout the maneuver and takes a
long time to recover.

Dan, U.S. Air Force, retired

The maneuver is obviously only a technical ability. As dog fighting
goes a well planned first approach with missles always wins.

A dogfight as a rule can be forced with the lost aircraft. A sucker
aircraft and absorb/take the radar.

after this occur a true missilefree dogfight happens.

All free battle has an AMERICAN superior first strike built in. If
this is lost, then what happens is a secondary senario occurs. An
litteral aircraft to aircraft and attritionloss war. When attrition
dictates a winner what happens?

So large air battle planning fails when aircraft performance only
dictates.