Air-To-Air Tactics & Combat Formations

[Manticore]

 

[james5]

Its really interesting and useful information.

 

[Manticore]

Basic fighter maneuvers - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

 

[Manticore]

Beyond Visual Range BVR AirtoAir Combat

PPT – Beyond Visual Range BVR AirtoAir Combat PowerPoint presentation | free to view

 

[Anas Ali]

wow . my head is about to explode too much information

 

[Peregrine]

nice man,i better check these tactics on Ace Combat6 and HA.W.X,i love to fly fighter planes in a game.

Same here......been playing Ace Combat since 90s....HAWX is okay too.

 

[AUSTERLITZ]

An excellent thread,antibody.Deserved of sticky in air warfare forum.

 

[mil-avia]

Aerial Attack Study written by John Boyd (156 pages) :
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Related link 1 and link 2.

 

[mil-avia]

Aerial Attack Study is the brilliant three-dimensional fighter maneuvers and the maneuver/countermaneuver logic developed by John Boyd in this study are still the basis for the current fighter tactics of every modern air force in today's world.

 

[Manticore]

Subject: 4.1. What good books are there on air combat?

The definitive work on air combat manoeuvring (ACM) is generally believed
to be _Fighter Combat_ by Robert L Shaw (the full title is either _Fighter
Combat: Tactics and Manoeuvring_ or _Fighter Combat: The Art and Science
of Air-to-Air Warfare_, depending on which edition you have). The book is
published by the US Naval Institute, Annapolis, Maryland (ISBN
1-85260-201-5). It covers a wide range of mission profiles, engagements
(one-on-one to many-on-many), and weapon types

https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups#!topic/rec.answers/3oD1OWSC37o

Subject: 4.1. What good books are there on air combat?

The definitive work on air combat manoeuvring (ACM) is generally believed
to be _Fighter Combat_ by Robert L Shaw (the full title is either _Fighter
Combat: Tactics and Manoeuvring_ or _Fighter Combat: The Art and Science
of Air-to-Air Warfare_, depending on which edition you have). The book is
published by the US Naval Institute, Annapolis, Maryland (ISBN
1-85260-201-5). It covers a wide range of mission profiles, engagements
(one-on-one to many-on-many), and weapon types

https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups#!topic/rec.answers/3oD1OWSC37o

 

[mil-avia]

Russian tacticians also foresee complex long-range engagements—but as Bogdan pointed out at Paris , they also see combats decaying into low-speed knife fights where super-maneuverability may decide who gets the first shot

 

[Shaped charge]

"In 1987 we had the AIM-9P, which was designed to reject flares, and when we used US flares against it would ignore them and go straight for the target. We had the Soviet flares – they were dirty, and none of them looked the same – and the AIM-9P said 'I love that flare'.-i consider like everyone else that NATO air-power was better than Soviet in the cold war but by how much was the big question...R-73 n hms would hv been a real shock had things gone hot

 

[SQ8]

"In 1987 we had the AIM-9P, which was designed to reject flares, and when we used US flares against it would ignore them and go straight for the target. We had the Soviet flares – they were dirty, and none of them looked the same – and the AIM-9P said 'I love that flare'.-i consider like everyone else that NATO air-power was better than Soviet in the cold war but by how much was the big question...R-73 n hms would hv been a real shock had things gone hot

Tell you a lot on why. The Americans were looking for a particular envelope on things working as timed. Flares burning at exact temperatures, heat that would give you an exact range where the transistors on the missle could decide on a flare. However, when that range was exceeded..the missile's electronics did what they were designed for. They fixed those problems in the 9L.

Also, when making a quote.. it is better to identify what you have added and what is quote.

The R-73 was however, a real shock when NATO had its chance to look at it at the end of the cold war when the Luftwaffe inherited the Mig-29's of the Luftstreitkräft

 

[Shaped charge]

Sorry man m new n dunno how stuff works here yet n i know the 9 lima was good, just wanted to say the American writers(Clancy n co.) usually make it sound like soviets were retards n Nato were Vulcan!

 

[humayounkhatri]

awesome pakistan air warfare is soo good nd have good thing to fight any one i like it soo much....