Another Rooski airplane doing its thing, Su-30

[French G.]

How Russian aircraft should be done is to give them to a Western country and let them upgrade their avionics and get pilots in them with lots of flight time. I've got some pictures of German Air Force Fulcrums flying carrier approaches.  Before my time in the squadron we also took our tarted up F-18s to Germany and played with them.

[RevDisk]

Watched a couple seconds of video, yea, vectored thrust. It's been around for a while, and yes, usually pretty much airshow only fighter advantage. It'll likely kill more stunt pilots than combat pilots.

It's niche. Harriers have put it to good use, don't get me wrong. But there's a reason why most combat aircraft don't use it.

[Tallpine]

Watched a couple seconds of video, yea, vectored thrust. It's been around for a while, and yes, usually pretty much airshow only fighter advantage. It'll likely kill more stunt pilots than combat pilots.

It's niche. Harriers have put it to good use, don't get me wrong. But there's a reason why most combat aircraft don't use it.

I thought the USAF tactics were to kill the enemy aircraft a hundred miles away 

[Fly320s]

I thought the USAF tactics were to kill the enemy aircraft a hundred miles away 

From pool-side at the Hilton.