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Subject:
F-18F scores gun kill on F-22A
Phaid
4/8/2006 2:41:13 PM
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It had to happen some day. I guess the pilot of this Super Bug is pretty proud of himself. Here are two HUD captures from a VFA-11 F/A-18F acting as Red Air against an F-22A:
Here's an alternate link... in case the other two are broken.
Looks like the Raptor found himself in front of a slow Super Hornet, which is not where anybody wants to be. The F-18F is at 15K feet, 20 degrees AOA, Mach 0.36, pulling 1.7G, with a peak previous G of 7.6 for the fight. HUD shows he has squeezed the trigger. It's not exactly what you'd call "comfortably saddled up in his six" or anything like that -- it's clearly a high deflection shot -- but it does show the Super Hornet can point its nose when it wants to. |
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