Think about this-you're flying a Red Flag hop over Nevada-you are in a F/A-18F Super Hornet, the OPFOR pilot is in a Su-33. He's on your 6 with missiles tracking-you dump thrust and hit the speed brakes, and he shoots past you. Now you are tracking him, when you see his aircraft go into a tailfirst slide with the nose pitched into the vertical-there's no way you can throttle down quickly enough, and you fly under him. He has look down, shoot down radar, and fires two IR missiles.....


There's no second place in ACM!


Believe what you want-there are not many American pilots with the skill to yank a Sukhoi into a "Cobra Strike", and even fewer who could defend successfully against it. There are several Russian Republic pilots who could give our boys a run for the money and a lot of grief.