Let's make it clear: It have been considered useless as a combat manoeuvre by the western Air Forces even since it was first performed by the Russians.
True it does induce a huge loss of speed/energy, and in the best case it could be used to force an opponent to overshoot, a manoeuvre which the AdA Mirage 2000 pilots uses curently, althought at far lower AOAs.
It was only explored by Dassault as part of the aircraft flight envelope and demonstrate its capabilities.
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Would you like to argue with Dassault test pilots on the subject?
At least when looking a video, i\'m picking up on the details which tells ME what is going on and when. I leave the commercial bull and take the rest.
You can keep the confrontational attitude, it doesn\'t change the facts.
And for your info, i don\'t drive thin bins. I\'m a biker thrue and thrue.
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