Originally Posted by
ASRAAMTOO
The Harrier has been around a while so I'm sure what Mogwi said is correct. But lets examine a hypothetical future aircraft.
The Harrier needs all of its thrust to sustain a high g turn. If you use some of this thrust to temporarily increase pitch rate then speed falls off. A future aircraft might be able to sustain limiting g at less than full power. If this is the case and it is capable of thrust vectoring, then the forward component of thrust may still be able to sustain limiting g whilst leaving some thrust spare to generate nose angle. Obviously its a little more complicated than that in that alpha is also likely to increase which will have a significant effect on drag and there may no longer be 'spare' power available to generate nose angle.
Surely if an aircraft is turning at the limiting G, increasing the pitch rate, no matter how you do it will exceed the limiting G?