In one of the pages here, there was a video of J10B performing falling-leaf manoeuvre and cobra using TVC. Can Tejas do similar moves? If not, will it be a disadvantage in a potential dog-fight with J10B?
The Cobra manoeuvre, where an aircraft rapidly pitches its nose up and then recovers, It can help a pilot quickly change direction only when your enemy is right behind your ass(like literally) and has only guns remaining.
Usually when the fighter gets into dogfight and some one is at your tail there is no way with today’s fragmented rounds you will be alive to do cobra.
In today’s training it’s advised to pilots never to engage enemy in dogfights. If someone is somehow gets into dogfight try to disengage and fire IR missiles from distance.
BVR has low probability to hit as radar lock can be tracked and decoys or afterburners can be engage
IR missiles give no fckin warning no matter how advanced your MWRs are. Thr is no lock which your fighter can warn you off unless you see it with ur eyes and deployed flares after flares.
That is what happened on 27th Feb, BVR locked onto Mig21 and WVR locked onto F-16, Indian pilot got ample warning and time to eject, paki pilot never knew when IR hit his ass.