madam!!
your great knowledge about aerial warfare & your love especially for rafale is well known
And btw, there is nothing embarassing about a Rafale pilot rolling its aircraft at 80 kt to get the F-22 into its sight after recovering energy, it is a classical yoyo maneouver, if you look well, he is into it from the start and recover his energy at will, nothing to do with the Japanese "tactic" which was designed to get the Wildcat stalling and departing while attempting to follow it, i hope the US pilot didn't expect Rafale to depart. LOL!
The Rafale pilots takes full advantage of the aircraft low speed capability to stay INSIDE of their adversaries (in this case the F-22) vertical turn (or horizontal when it is the case), consistantly menacing him by pointing its nose toward it,
The F-22 also runs out of energy at some point, and it dives further down while Rafale start its yoyos below 200 kt to keep its nose toward it, F-22 oscilliation are larger, it cannot follow the Rafale at such low speed and is NEVER in a position to threaten him.
The Rafale pilot does his yo-yos, misses a gun shot by a iota, rolls around 80 kt, recovers some energy just around 150 kt which says a lot about his confidence on the thrust he has to get his kill (he announced his position for the kill previous to get it), does it again and finally scores his kills, this is my opinion and that of many Rafale pilots btw...
BTW the Wildcat was not "Slower" than the Zero (actually FASTER in level flight and in a dive) but much heavier and comparatively underpowered while trying to follow a Zero in a climb; it would stall and depart, the greatest Japanese Ace did use this tactic until he was killed by a Hellcat which he took for Wildcat, which again proves this thing, that your knowledge about aerial warfare is awesome
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Have a nice day
CHEERS