Sigh, I guess I’m jaded. F-22s have been doing that tail slide for 20 years at least.
Got a good look at the Raptors while working at Kadena Air Base on Okinawa - mock dog-fights with the F-15s - pretty incredible aicraft.
The F-104 Starfighter did it first. IIRC the first fighter with a thrust to weight ratio greater then one. Made by Lockheed.
Saw the F22 perform this move at the Chino Air show back in 2014.
—reminds me of Bob Hoover doing a “hammerhead “stall—
Airshow BS.
Let me know where and when it has actually been used AND proven its worth in actual close-in air combat or even at BVR, kkthx.
Nothing like losing 100% of your energy in a fight. This is just an airshow stunt with very little utility besides getting you killed.
Why is this something?
I suppose there is something in noticing the naiveté and ignorance of those responsible for the article who’s own feeling of amazement is important to themselves.
1. The Russian air force’s equipment s much more heavily invested in vectored thrust than the US’s is. The “parlor tricks” of their vectored thrust aircraft are the stuff of legend, well more impressive than what’s in this video, but the simple fact is that stunts like this don’t promote the winning of dogfights. The US’s fighters still tend more to be designed in line with Col. John Boyd’s 1960s treatise on Energy-Maneuverability Theory, which theorizes that winning dogfights is dependent on maintaining high potential energy, because potential energy (= airspeed) is the most tactically exploitable source of maneuverability.
The F-22 tends to be an exception to this thrust vectoring because Lockheed deemed it necessary to overcome the limitations that stealth design imposed on the configuration of its ailerons.
2. I am amazed at the number of cell phone videographers who still haven’t figured out the camera in their phone also works when turned sideways. Because the typical human’s field of view is twice as wide as it is tall, so the sideways ‘panoramic’ view is much more eye-pleasing and comfortable to watch than video shot in the ‘portrait’ orientation.
There’s a very good reason why the screen is your local cinema is much wider than it is tall, so turn the camera sideways already.
No video on link. “WATCH VIDEO HERE” does nothing, all else blank......
Would love to watch it.
What a horrible website. Full screen ad that won’t go away and can’t be closed.