Kvochur’s Bell

[@Chris-pt6hh]

If I saw an enemy do this I'd say "nevermind bro it was just a prank gg"

[@Dominikuuu]

Why? I would laugh my ass off because of how dumb they would be. Bleeding all the speed and literaly setting yourself up for the missile or even guns

[@monferno204]

Free EXP go brrrr

[@hiteshadhikari]

​@@Dominikuuuit all depends on predictability, enemy position and many factors

[@Dominikuuu]

@@hiteshadhikari I have a missile He is in a jet and just did the stupidest thing he could have done in a jet. Manuvers and agility have no place in modern air combat.

[@3hahahas9072]

@@Dominikuuu lol this genius thinks he's genius

[@justinv6410]

“…..then you pop the ejection chord, jump out of the plane, aim your personal bazooka at the chasing enemy jet and fire. Whilst falling, manoeuvre yourself back into the cockpit of your now free falling plane, engage afterburners and accelerate out to your next target.”

[@edmills9736]

Sounds like Battlefield

[@justinv6410]

@@edmills9736 You understood that reference.

[@revive-me_ed6246]

Rendezook

[@Vuadanee]

a classic

[@Gabriel-iu5qo]

🔥

[@stevengreen9536]

I must admit it is an impressive maneuver.

[@CamFurey-to1gd]

Why, “must you admit”, it? It’s a word class aerial maneuver

[@stevengreen9536]

@CamFurey-to1gd First it is world class maneuver. Second i am simply giving credit where it is due. He created a good move.

[@rubens1767]

You didn't have to admit

[@stevengreen9536]

@rubens1767 And you don't have to get caught up on a FIGURE OF SPEECH. Or is that not a concept where you are from?

[@CamFurey-to1gd]

@@stevengreen9536 you didn’t have to admit it

[@andr5254]

"dont think just do" 🗿

[@Ghostrex101]

My new motto in life

[@davidenatoh359]

@@Ghostrex101 That is a bad motto.

[@chilledburrito]

@@davidenatoh359 "IT WAS INDEED A BAD MOTTO!!!" *sirens blaring*

[@JTD416]

Ever heard of OODA loop? Well it’s the real thing that pilots need and follow by.

[@Sirbozo]

yea

[@theregalproletariat]

A maneuver with many advantages: - Impresses airshow crowds - Bleeds off lots of valuable energy very quickly - Presents the largest possible target surface to enemy guns/missiles

[@barbarapitenthusiast7103]

Westoids when they finnaly figure out that air show manouvers are usseles in combat.

[@KiryuKazuma4thchairman]

It's an move for airshows used to look cool. Since when were planes shooting guns and missiles at other aircraft within airshows. This isn't for combat it's got snow. Delete your comment you look dumb not smart

[@TheMasterhomaster]

Thank you. I was wondering what practical benefit this maneuver had aside from looking pretty.

[@The_AeroAce]

@@barbarapitenthusiast7103 No, we... we knew lmao. Why do you think the raptor sacrifices maneuverability that Russians prioritize to do maneuvers like this in favor of weapon armament and avionics. Lmao.

[@barbarapitenthusiast7103]

@@The_AeroAce supermaneuverability was never ment for air show manouvers, it was made to be able to effectively engage in WVR engaments and get a missile off as soon as possible. Also funny you mention the complete failure that the F-22 is. The F-22 trades everything so that it can sit in a hangar 90% of the time.

[@lyonvensa]

"Holy shit, what the fuck was that!?"

[@kineticstar]

I don't know, but Fox-2!

[@T95man]

Switches to guns and shreds the aircraft

[@thomasvakyren]

An easy target.

[@Lucapanfil]

@@T95manthe F-14 would of been long gone anyway if it were up against a su-57. Too bad maverick suffers main character syndrome.

[@Lucapanfil]

@@thomasvakyren​​⁠the F-14 would of been long gone anyway if it were up against a su-57. Too bad maverick suffers main character syndrome.

[@Wagner9799]

USA: We love to drift cars!! Russia: *just watch...

[@CamFurey-to1gd]

Lolol F22 has entered the chat

[@mokarokas-1727]

@@CamFurey-to1gd And what an entreatment it was!

[@starlight0313]

*loses wing to proxy fuse* blyat

[@__d.b__]

He was Ukrainian actually.

[@renel8964]

"I wonder if u know, how we do things in Moscow "

[@Lorendrawn]

"I want to understand the enemy."

[@Recordspin]

I think that was a different move.

[@ShadowGamingReal1]

*champ dies*

[@federico0439]

​@@Recordspin yeah, but I think he still did a move similar to this one in an another cut scene.

[@nonexistentialcrisis]

Spare 8 no dogfighting!

[@Enemy-AC-130-inbound]

But why did bro have such a long name😂

[@wolframalpha8634]

R.I.P. Kvochur, a true artist of the skies!

[@tianhaoju4634]

Anatoly Kvochur has a lot of airshow times. Before the famous maneuver, he was also involved in a bird crash in 1989 Paris air show, being practically stalled(for hia mig29) and at very low altitudes, Kvochur managed a safe ejection and landed with only skin injuries. Another two pilots will be saved in Paris in 1993, with a good number of successful bails over many wars, including Chechenya, Georgia and Ukraine as well. Kvochur was also famous for his ultralow flight in Zhangjiajie, China, where he flew around 1 meter off ground in a su30.

[@JohnSmith-im8qt]

Ejecting safely is super dangerous. It can fuck up your back and end your career.

[@smra_progenitor]

1 METER???

[@real_andrii]

*committed war crimes in Chechnya, Georgia and Ukraine.

[@john_w4ng]

​@@real_andrii As far as I know, he did not participate in wars. Certainly not in Ukraine - he died in 2024 at the age of 72. Well, another interesting fact is that he himself is Ukrainian by nationality.

[@real_andrii]

@@john_w4ng russo-Ukrainian war started in 2014 when russia invaded Donetsk and Luhansk region, annexed Crimea. Full scale invasion of Ukraine started when russia used all their weapons in February 24th 2022, and that p of s Kvochur was still alive and training russian terroristic pilots, that are still regularly bombing Ukrainian residential buildings, schools, hospitals and maternity hospitals. Finally, him being born in Ukraine doesn't mean anything, because since 1969 he was building his life and career as a soviet/russian pilot (even during 1973-1977).

[@PandaMan-xy1he]

Because I see many comments criticizing it as a combat maneuver (outside the context of TopGun, where it’s quite obviously purely for the rule of cool), I’d like to explain why this isn’t, and how supermaneuverability was originally supposed to be used in a combat scenario. Firstly, obviously, this and for the most part the famous Cobra aren’t intended to be used in combat. They both bleed the aircraft’s energy, leaving you both immediately vulnerable to your target’s wingman and in the long term out of options for the guy you *are* fighting. However, this isn’t the point of supermaneuverability. Supermaneuverability was almost exclusively intended for use with a Shchel-3U helmet mounted sight, which allows you to cue a missile by looking at the target, and the R-73 thrust vectoring missile short-range missile. At the time of deployment, helmet-mounted sights were extremely rare in the West (Yes, Navy F4s sometimes, but rarely, had them, but that’s basically it at the time), and there were not really any high off-bore-sight missiles to use with them; even Aim-9M, the most modern US missile at the time, couldn’t effectively be fired at close range off the bore, and at longer ranges radar cueing was sufficient. What the R-73/Shchel-3U/supermaneuverable combination allows is shots fired at extremely close range at very unexpected angles across the circle of a dogfight. In this case, supermaneuverability is used just as much as is required to get the nose close enough for a decent launch, at range at which flares are effectively not an issue. In short, supermaneuverability in real life wasn’t for evading and dodging missiles (a practical impossibility), but rather offensively, in which it is basically never shown in film, building an incorrect public image.

[@jeremyr7147]

This ☝️.. oh yeah & the Russians are badass. Only a fool would poke the bear.

[@thomasdelys8688]

thank you, way too many people think of it has evasive maneuvers, i guess cuz of top gun :/ then they think they know better.

[@TheGoddamnBacon]

Military aviation nerd in the US here. Great explanation.

[@MrRobertX70]

Well said.

[@Claire_H]

As many have already said it’s completely useless in air to air. There are actual maneuvers you can do if you get in a gun to gun dogfight that are superior for evasion, but useless against missile technology. However being a spectator on the ground while seeing this is quite cool.

[@zulzuli3603]

If you said so😊😊😊

[@lennymegakill9580]

​@@zulzuli3603" if you say so" sayyyyyyy

[@imza5535]

I mean he had an extensive career in air shows so that kind of explains it?

[@predatorx3326]

Mostly its a demo of engine capability. If you try do this via engines of MiG-21/Su-7,you will go to the ground Without engines

[@CharlesHuse]

@@predatorx3326most combat jets cannot to this at all without a compressor stall and flameout. Most people have not seen anything like this outside of a stunt prop plane at an airshow.

[@sandeepsreehari4687]

The man had the balls to perform such an awesome maneuver. Hats off to him.

[@silentblackhole]

It's good for 2 things. 1. Looking cool 2. Airshows. Other than that, it's completely useless in modern-day warfare where you don't even see the opponent, just his radar return on a screen.

[@G1NZOU]

Yes pretty much, it showcases the supermanuverability of an aircraft and impresses crowds but in modern combat it won't do anything against long range missiles, and it won't help much in dogfights either as you loose too much energy.

[@MajinOthinus]

It's also useless in a pure gun dogfight. It literally just looks cool and has no actual use.

[@pandasonic1294]

@@MajinOthinus not really. It's plenty useful since planes equipped with thrust vectoring also come with plenty good AOA capabilities. The manuver is useless though no lie about that.

[@MajinOthinus]

@@pandasonic1294 And that is supposed to make it helpful how?

[@pandasonic1294]

@@MajinOthinus Maneuverability.

[@H3ntaig33K]

Lemme go from a thin target profile to presenting the pursuing fighter the biggest profile I could give them.

[@TheSchultinator]

And kill my speed and any ability to maneuver effectively for a few seconds

[@imza5535]

Its an airshow maneuver dum dums

[@cideltacommand7169]

This is a good manouver to avoid fox 3s, the missile will get confused thinking to itself "Why is he making himself an easy target? Must be a trap".

[@shubhankarsingh2605]

Yeah it's made for dogfights?

[@tjtheo3584]

​@@shubhankarsingh2605not at all. It's made to look cool at an airshow to present the maneuver capabilities of the plane. Dogfight are about conserving energy. You pull that move and by the time you have any momentum again, if you don't just get blasted out of the air, your enemy is 5k feet above you coming in with missiles and guns again

[@katboi7140]

Playing 4d chess wiyh fox 3s lmao

[@Irsdonnie]

This maneuver is good it kinda seems alien tho the way it moves around

[@JChevy53]

I love watching this maneuver

[@_Shinasu]

Regardless of what country he's from, it's a hell of a maneuver

[@SuperRadAttack]

We're all human, what difference does it make where he's from?

[@Giovanis-Racist-vpn-account]

​@@SuperRadAttackThere will always be someone who wants to disagree with you, it's KZbin shorts though, your superior.

[@1dgram]

It's truly awesome to see this at an airshow

[@matthewsmith2673]

Now do one for a rendezook

[@samuelmendoza9356]

next April perhaps?

[@dasdadfsfsffsfsfsffsfsfsf6222]

That last clip sent chills through my body. Badass!

[@blackbelthistorian]

I grew up watching playing Ace Combat games starting with Ace Combat Zero and watching History channels “Dog Fights” and using tactics learned from the show while playing the game. It’s crazy how accurate the flight simulation was on those games even on older consoles

[@BM-13_KATYUSHA]

That's like calling need for speed a racing sim 💀

[@victoria19853]

I started playing ace combat games way back then on Ace Combat 4 shattered Skies I remembered the next game on the series Ace Combat 5 my favorite.Ace combat zero was a good game but not as good as ace combat 5.

[@blackbelthistorian]

@@BM-13_KATYUSHA where did I call ace combat a flight sim?

[@tf2enjoyerreal]

@@blackbelthistorianin your original post “the flight simulation”

[@blackbelthistorian]

@@tf2enjoyerreal that’s not calling it a flight simulator. Reading and comprehension is gone in the world.

[@sanderscage2718]

These is really cool whether its really useful or not!!

[@Actualrandom_person]

For everyone wondering, the cobra manouver was first done by a swedish jet pilot

[@philfoggs5357]

I'm sorry, but I believe the Cobra was named after another soviet pilot by the name Pukochev, when he performed it in the Mig29.

[@su-57_]

@@philfoggs5357 no, the cobra maneuver was first performed by a j35 draken

[@1-0H]

Wow such a good person helping his enemies hit him easier ❤

[@pepebeezon772]

"Oh no" *looks back and fires a AIM-9X* "Anyways..."

[@mio2344]

and turns out that one you trying to shoot down is a belkan ace annd dodge the misslie without flares and shot you down.

[@pepebeezon772]

@@mio2344 lol, with no air speed? Physics disagree with you

[@mio2344]

@@pepebeezon772 ace combat games has no Physics whatsoever

[@mio2344]

@@pepebeezon772 and they have better and tougher planes too.

[@genericscottishchannel1603]

@@pepebeezon772 you saw belkan and STILL thought physics had a say?

[@KevinMunnich]

Good luck with your job interview and I hope you have a great day 😊

[@Jodah175]

and any missile that was tracking you goes "damn, thanks for making my job easy" and you explode.

[@fra93ilgrande]

The most BADASS fighter test pilot ever 🥶🥶🥶🥶🔝

[@H_Hold]

Thats pretty cool; thanks for becoming a larger target for my aim-9

[@MattyCurtis1]

Awesome!

[@DanielOrtiz-tb6fs]

While this move is really beautiful and probably surprisingly effective, most (Not all) engagements that have and will happen in the sky are beyond visual range. If a pilot performed this, they were way to close already for modern aerial warfare. Also to add, if done, it's also waaaay to close to use missiles by that point and a gun run isn't likely due to how short the window to react and fire would be.

[@pandasonic1294]

Yeah unless if you're in a Stolen aircraft then that's enough to persuade atleast one enemy airplane to check up on u and what happens next? CHAOS.

[@sonwig5186]

Nobody is saying otherwise.

[@jemborg]

AI could probably handle the targeting and firing in the gun run. It would react quick enough.

[@bojangs4719]

Thank you for having a fundamental knowledge of aeronautics and physics. With all this stealth coming about dog fights at Mach 2 isn't that far fetched these days.

[@BoninViloni]

Fantastique 🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉

[@Jameslawz]

I used to do this on BF3, get as high as possible to avoid the heat sink missiles and watch your engine choke from lack of oxygen then see a rapid descend down and circle round the other fighter plane. Can't imagine the amount of G's this must be in real life, the stress on the body to pull it off.

[@pepebeezon772]

@@Jameslawz no you didn't, bf3 flight model doesn't do that when you climb. And the only way to defeat missiles is flares/chaff which works every time even if you fly in a straight line. BF3 is terrible as far as air combat is concerned

[@VuLe-wi9kv]

This sounds like a war thunder trailer i've watched long ago. There is a sence in the trailer where a Soviet fighter was being chased by a German fighter, the Soviet pilot then pulled his plane 90 degrees up at the sky while the German pilot also do the same trying to shoot him down. The German plane failed to climb higher than the Soviet, thus losing speed and falling back down, the Soviet also falling back down too but after the German, so the Soviet pilot is now behind his enemy... The Soviet pilot won that fight.

[@SUPRAMIKE18]

There's a story I heard of an SU22 that accidentally pulled a similar move, it pulled double the rated Gs, when the pilot got back to base the wings were found bent over 20 degrees upward from normal 😂

[@PatrickKQ4HBD]

​@@SUPRAMIKE18Sounds cool, but I doubt it actually happened. Those planes can survive way more Gs than the squishy meat sacks in charge of them can.

[@shaider1982]

I first saw the tail slide in the OVA version of Macross Plus

[@GeAsita]

When the plane started going backwards towards the earth my balls did that funny feeling you get from vertigo

[@Deep_End962]

Oh no! Sudden testicular torsion!

[@stevenewman1393]

👌😎👍Very cool indeed!.

[@bostjansrsen5772]

Pointless in real air-to-air combat but good for air shows and movies.

[@johnpaul5447]

Are you an expert? Most people who comment on this are keyboard warriors.

[@Tanknuggets217]

@@johnpaul5447right😂

[@Guy.7pop]

@@johnpaul5447 think about it stalling your aircraft in combat is suicide. Looks cool but not a game changer

[@k-9mags]

​@johnpaul5447 I may not be an expert, but being stalled in a world where most air engagements are beyond visual range with missiles does not seem like a good idea.

[@stevengreen9536]

​@Guy.7pop Exactly in a dog fight to lose momentum makes you an easier target. You want to go faster not slower.

[@cookies_nom_nom]

Most beautiful plane ever❤

[@johnnnysilverhand9819]

Instant vomit all over the hud. Can’t see a thing, ejecting

[@zeldas_her080]

That's what the gas mask is for haha

[@unitedstatesdale]

Kvocher died in 1989 after his MIG18 went into a flat spin after an engine failure. His ejection seat failed to deploy

[@su-57_]

what are you yapping about, the crash in 1989 was a mig29 and kvochur died this year

[@1nhof]

He died in April of this year

[@Teadrinker-kg4ve]

AA: free kill

[@KartiacKID]

Brilliant

[@lucianograff6512]

Whats the point ?

[@borismuller86]

Quickly bleed speed and maneuver?

[@GrummanCatenjoyer]

Maneuvers like these are last ditch attempts To get an enemy to overshoot However Missiles like the AIM-9X Iris-T and R-73 and probably even the Aim-9M with there thrust vectoring/ high maneuverability it would likely also require a flare dump to avoid getting hit by a IR missle while performing it In real combat (even without BVR) it would rarely ever been seen due to the excessive G forces and loss of energy making the aircraft vulnerable to getting shot down by anyone nearby Making it mainly viable in 1 on 1 situations

[@1990-w1l]

it look good on airshow, that it

[@thinkordie7292]

Last of the dog-fighters. 🫡. Maybe

[@bengeorge9063]

​@GrummanCatenjoyer not to mention that most missiles have a fragmentation warhead. Even a close miss can still shred most aircraft

[@tekis0]

It's an update of "the hammerhead," which is a trick that prop driven planes have been doing for decades.

[@MrBlipman]

Russian pilots: Check out our sick maneuvers!! US Pilots: Not even close to visual contact range and dropping them like flies.

[@maximipe]

Russian can do that too, what's the fun in that? US planes would probably brake apart trying anyways

[@mio2344]

strangereal especially belkan aces: they just dodge it and shoot you down with simple 3 gen fighters.

[@maximipe]

@@mio2344 ikr would really want to see how those 5 gen fighter stand to a swarm of drones. F35 costs 90M and a combat drone 20k, that's 4500 drones for 1 fighter

[@mio2344]

@@maximipe those little drones are buyers remorse trust me they don't work too much let alone on the fighter jets

[@maximipe]

@@mio2344 yeah, unless you are a defense contractor, some kind of arms expert or have sources for that I will not

[@octaviovaladaoferreirinhad2689]

Su-57 is just gorgeous

[@1984Phalanx]

Still no match for Tom Cruise the plane!

[@davidgraham2673]

Beautiful aircraft. The graceful lines of Russian aircraft make them some of the best looking aircraft in the sky.

[@tommiterava5955]

How to maximise your radar cross section and get hit by beyond-visual-range air-to-air missile.

[@JAK0449]

Im a fan of anatoly kvotchur since iwas 6..at the time he performed on air shows on su 27 flâner after the mig 29 crash in paris

[@Lameguy]

These bots in the comments 😂

[@ukaszgrzesik7231]

Yep. Tumble butts are rolling out en masse.

[@SkippertheBart]

Amazing display of handling. But is there any advantage over just... turning?

[@stormthemusic-yt]

No matter how smart and how nimble your plane is, Tom Cruise will get ya

[@sureshtsv5091]

Great pilot program system movement judgment

[@BRUNO1974]

That really is so cool

[@rajeevsukla5681]

अति सुंदर

[@DuolingoWrath]

Interesting.

[@nolaboy85]

🔥🔥🔥🔥

[@MrRobertX70]

Many people seem confused by the concept of supermaneuvrability. In a within-visual-range fight, the aircraft that can point its nose at its opponent first is able to fire a heat-seeking missile first and wins. Supermaneuvrability allows for quickly pointing your nose at the enemy aircraft.

[@engrfka]

Imagine a time traveler goes back in time and explains this to early aviation engineers, they'd lose their mind over staling

[@matth6163]

OG’s will remember this from Ace Combat: Assault Horizon

[@jonboggio3323]

Missiles love slow moving targets, keep it up

[@beagle3247]

My airship destroyer in trailmakers uses a very similar maneuver by tilting up and disengaging hover. Absolutely terrifying to see such a large ship move like this and the game can't handle much of it. Assuming this guy had similar experiences designing airships. My ship is named the U.S.S Vulcan class destroyer and has heavy anti air, bombing and maneuvering capabilities if I didn't make an RV into a Landship One it would be the best thing I've ever built. Mostly due to lack of money to do literally anything irl and my main engineering interests being military and law enforcement related. The game helps me learn a lot.

[@Tstahl962]

A fighter jet won't lose momentum going upwards at maximum thrust, not enough to stall or fall back down... The SU-27 to 57 line all have a thrust to weight of 1.25 to 1.37 or so at max afterburner

[@evelyngravatt3198]

"IM GONNA SHOW THEM A LITTLE TRICK I LEARNED!"

[@scottperkins7826]

Exactly the maneuver done on top gun 😂

[@nebojsanesic5326]

Генијално!

[@SUPRAMIKE18]

Basically throwing it into a vertical flat spin.

[@Hat_theif]

Imagine you are in a jet fight and the enemy just starts doing the plane equivalent of dancing

[@rashainn4810]

God bless you all and your families 🙏🏽✝️🛐🛐 😊

[@AHSValor]

And basically a death sentence in any fight where the trailing aircraft isn't outstandingly green

[@Oldnoitall]

I seen the little tiny jet plane with Budweiser wrote all over it do a tail slide at the Tri-City airport in Blountville, Tennessee. I think the original name was Keller field. This was probably about 1986.

[@danutmh]

It is a nice airshow maneuver for sure , but regarding the practical applications in air to air combat? Most of the fighting that happens is BVR (beyond visual range) , this maneuver would just end up getting you a parachute ride.

[@triadwarfare]

Or maybe skip the parachute as it would cause the missile to get a direct hit on the pilot.

[@gibster9624]

These maneuvers make a lot of sense if your opponent isn't trying to kill you from miles away.

[@ainWorldCoGodly]

Imagine doing this by accident. “I wonder how high this thingy goes🤔” ✈️🛩️

[@Skyfighter64]

Kvocher's Bell sounds a lot like a maneuver developed by an F-100 pilot called "Flat Plating the Bird." Rapid pitch up, Rudder to induce a corkscrew motion, then straightening out, now on the enemy's 6 O'Clock.

[@bojangs4719]

Right a controlled flat spin. Funny these comments don't realize the usefulness of this tactic. Burn off that energy and speed while your pursuer thinks you were going vertical. It has disadvantages like comments mention. Speed loss in a engagement in a modern war field isn't wise in most situations. Nor if the pursuer has wingmen. You might get one but his buddies will pick you off. Though in a true one in one dogfight this would be devastating. If pilot can withstand the "g"s or bring it under control quick enough.

[@Kruzgamer]

Blud really exposed himself fully to the guns

[@Rezec75]

The non-stop seething from the "fellas" in the comments made me chuckle. You can't enjoy anything without barking at it.

[@My_initials_are_O.G.cuz_I_am]

Even in WVR (within visual range) fights this maneouver is only really a way to both kill your kinetic energy and present the widest profile to the enemy at your 6. This maneuver is probably the best way to catch a Fox-2 in a dogfight, or even get gunned.

[@barbarapitenthusiast7103]

Thats becuase Its a fucking air show manouver not ment for anything beyond that.

[@jeremyr7147]

The speed at which the turn around can occur can place a jet your chasing from behind right in your face launching missles before you realize it turned back.

[@My_initials_are_O.G.cuz_I_am]

@@barbarapitenthusiast7103 My point exactly...

[@My_initials_are_O.G.cuz_I_am]

@@jeremyr7147 Launching a missile without lock, and at distances way below the lower bound of WEZ (Weapon Employment Zone) will not net you any result, other than losing one missile.

[@jeremyr7147]

@@My_initials_are_O.G.cuz_I_am not trying to argue with you, but your just describing 1 paradigm. I'm talking about at a distance; it obviously depends on the situation when it would be usable.. I mean if it can do that imagine what else it can do with thrust vectoring, plus Russian avionics & missles have high capabilities. I sense you just trash talk the Russians, like most Americans; I mean it's an assumption.. when in reality they have some amazing stuff. I get it, we like to think we're superior, but their weapons development is far exceeding the west. The pentagon doesn't even know it's full capabilities. Just be aware they're no joke.

[@RegiaMarinaLittorio]

I remember doing this in my Japanese A6M5 Zero

[@bennittotheburrito9606]

Huh?

[@enderwiggen3638]

Speed is life, all these low speed twirls look great from the ground but in a furball will get you killed. A 5th Gen aircraft going less than 200 knots will get destroyed by a 4th Gen fighter flying in at 400 knots from an angle the 5th Gen pilot wasn’t expecting.

[@Guest-nm9jt]

Goose:Wtf is he doing?!

[@SpookyDaCat]

what game is this?

[@Upsidedowndog27]

I do the first maneuver all the time not even realizing what it is.. I just wanna see how long I can keep the nose pointed up. I also did the bell to a MiG 29 one time while I was in a f16 and it was the coolest feeling ever

[@AviationVidsandShorts]

Kvocher's Bell: exists *The missile does not know where it is*

[@nserekoraymond8593]

That Russian pilot is a legend 🙌🙌🙌

[@WGB_Boardgamebros]

Every time I use this maneuver in WT: instant death

[@jboolaw28]

Missile knows where it is and where it isn't

[@qwertzer]

The creator of this maneuver unfortunately died this year... Rest in Peace Kvovhur!

[@k.ottophillips4303]

What is the tactical advantage of this maneuver?

[@ДенисФедоров-ь3у]

Another way of making yourself an easier target

[@30769s]

Everytime I see someone do this I just go "Holy, what the fuck was that?"

[@Vinemaple]

I didn't know this was a real thing that real aircraft could do, but this video makes the physics sound reasonable. I notice there's no mention of a combat utility, although I suppose one could use it to cause an enemy overshoot without losing sight of the enemy.

[@settratheimperishable4093]

There is no combat utility. Purely entertainment and to show off the prowess of the pilot, as well as the maneuverability of the aircraft.

[@matthewnardin7304]

Neat. Not sure what that does in a BVR engagement.

[@shadowgojiro]

Btw what's the purpose of this maneuver?

[@jmo8391]

Move was also in the Macross Zero anime IIRC

[@daitsukishiro1505]

MAcuuuuROOOOSS

[@cbjoydeep7]

Maverick - I can do the Cobra maneuver with ease. Su-57 pilot - Hold my Vodka!! Rings a bell??

[@oliverwithers9736]

These damn gen 5 fighters