Originally Posted by
Courtney Mil
Has anyone here seen this used as a successful combat manoeuvre?
You mean converting your 30 ton Mach 2, 9g Fighter aircraft into a 30 ton hovering Helicopter during aerial combat at a time of 60g HOBS heaters?
So my question is, what's it for?
Might be of some limited value when your down to Guns. in that case the nose pointing ability might be useful to some extent.
So, once the Su has shot off all its 10 missiles and still survived it could even make some use of its Gun if the oppeonent has also emptied his missiles without success.
Does that sound a plausible scenario?
Decide for yourself....