Su-27 Cobra in dogfight

Bostik haciendo una cobra en el lomac.

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• cobra
• su-27
• dogfight

[reme7bis]

PGM

[GIANNHSPEIRAIAS]

@sqy391

fire and forget missiles ring any bell?

[SMJeOma]

@sqy391 no but the su27 got a head up display so he locked the other gun before.. only thing left is doing a cobra manuevre and u got a kill

[sqy391]

you can't lock on so quickly

[giuchin]

nice man that was awesome

[f38stingray]

@Watsupo The Su-27 does have an active flight control system - it was the first fighter to employ one.

The cobra maneuver is performed by toggling that system off, allowing the pilot to push the plane past the normal angle of attack limit. Then, the pilot switches the control system back on, which causes the plane to automatically right itself.

[code123ns]

@Watsupo actually, most do, including su-27

[Watsupo]

@camwizardoz

Exactly, all Russian aircraft (save for newer, up-to-date versions since sometime after the fall of the soviet union), had no fly-by-wire or computers what-so-ever, thus allowing the pilot to push the aircraft past what a computer what deem its "limit".

Leading us to the cobra maneuver. Russian aircraft have fly-by-wire, but still no computers to control the stresses put on the plane by the pilot, bad idea in my opinion.

Any highly maneuverable aircraft can do a cobra.

[aamer111]

lol how you do that in flaming cliffs

[camwizardoz]

actually, the F-14 pulled something SIMILAR to this, not an actual cobra. A cobra has to pull at least 90 degrees or more off the planes horizontal axis. Yes the AOA limiter plays a part in this but its only because the AOA is in place to control the plane, simply because its shape and layout are so aerodynamically unstable that without it, it would be extremely hard for a pilot to keep his craft under control. Same with the F-16 and F-22.