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From: fsdjt2@thebox.rain.com (Dean Tabor)
Newsgroups: sci.military
Subject: Re: Air to Air F-15 vs. F-14
Keywords: Bat Turn
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Date: 17 May 91 04:06:54 GMT
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From: fsdjt2@thebox.rain.com (Dean Tabor)


Al.Conte@EBay.Sun.COM (Al Conte) writes:
> It equates to a 7 - 8 g turn rate, something that any F-15 can do also.
> A manuever that the Eagle developed that cannot be duplicated by the
> Tomcat is an upward spiraling while accelerating move.
>  
> It takes a tremendous amount of excess energy to do this, and is said to
> be a formidable air to air tactic.

Asides from giving the '15 driver a roaring case of the dizzies and perhaps 
making the '14 herder wonder which way the F-15 is going to come out of the 
spiral, how would this be a "formidable" tactic?  A zoom climb is a zoom 
climb, no?