To: BIGLOOK
Isn’t that why they developed the “over the shoulder” method where the fighter would fire the missile and immediately go into an Immelmann back the way it came?
38 posted on
10/22/2007 7:58:48 AM PDT by
PLMerite
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To: PLMerite
Isnt that why they developed the over the shoulder method
Yeah.....but ask an aviator, They'd know more about that than I would. (Air Crew on EC-121s, EP-3s and EA-3s)
The Genie was an unguided missile or rocket so once loosed the aviator was pretty much in as much trouble as his targets.
The lob delivery technique and Immelmann escape was developed for striking ground targets....the lob giving time for the aviator to get distance from the blast. An air intercept would be a straight shot. Don't know if the maneuver would buy the same time in a head to head strike.
42 posted on
10/22/2007 7:22:11 PM PDT by
BIGLOOK
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