This means he admitted or have to affirmed the advantage of Raptor's stance due to AoA no matter it is Cobra or not.
The advantage of the Raptor is in full control throughout the its flight envelope, not the specific angle of attack it can achieve. When pilots fly the aircraft they'd rather don't think if I can do this at 45 AoA. They want to know if they can put the nose of the plane in the direction of the enemy when needed.
Therefor, not all post-stall or super-maneuver are real valuable dos not mean all super-maneuver are worthless.
Super-maneuverability refers to exact those post-stal maneuvers that are dangerous to perform in real combat and require for test pilots to switch off safeties and do idle on the engines, cary minimal weapons/fuel and generally require more than your frontline unit experience to execute. SO for all intent and purposes, they are useless unless part of the regular carefree airicraft flight envelope
Very wrong precondition here goes made we messed BVR air war and large-scaled war in air
but if your enemy is Russian, they are surely going to broken your AWACS down and knock your satellite off, but you guys here still dreaming you know everything buy your foes merely like blinder.
Red Flag is very realistic large scale exercise way more complex than probably any conflict the US has fourth in the Air since Vietnam
rousseau, you might want to examine to implications of your stamens carefully. You seam to think that you can analyze the operational requirements and tactics of modern air combat better than the second most experienced Air Force in the world. Needless to say, I think you are very far from seeing the big picture enough to make any valid observation.
If you rethink a roughly full scaled war, there is no situation so clean that will gives you a comfortable launching posture, you fly smoothly, you will be shot down certainly.
I guess you have not heard of the F-117 who flew smoothly (as you say) in the thickest of air defenses over 1700 times before being shot down as part of a very complex operation.
Flying smoothly is a main principle in operating stealth aircraft and has the side benefit of increasing range and aircraft service life.
Moreover, the nozzle PAKFA used won't be simple 2D TVC like F-22 used or 3D TVC X-31 used. Both of nozzle the Raptor or X-31 fitted, changing its direction by convergence and proliferation, but the omnidirection vectoring thrust PAKFA used is capable of controlling its c-section and direction separately leading to PAKFA spinning like boomerang. Please wake, the meaning of turn for jet fighting has been changin
Th Raptor 2D TVC is not simple at all. It provides not only pitch trust vector control but it also reduces the engine exaust RCS and infrared signature considerably.
Are you familiar with the F-15 ACTIVE research testbed? Please do some research before you imply that T-50 has something not seen before or that it will discover some fundamental air combat tactic that will give it a significant undiscovered advantage.
According to those running the Northrop AFT effort the one such advantage that gives 1 pilot the power of 10 is stealth. According to the director of Sukhoi at the time of the SU-37 debut (1998), it is trust vector control.
Please keep those arguments coming. I am having such a great time ;D