On 7 Jan 2004 22:18:56 -0800, (robert arndt) wrote:

http://vayu-sena.tripod.com/info-su30mki.html

Please note photos of rear-firing missile and the statement about
"near-zero airspeed" at high AOA.

Rob


ANY airplane can travel at "near zero airspeed". Do you know what a
torque-roll is? I think the thing that needs to be made CLEAR in this
and the zero airspeed thread is HOW the aircraft arrived at zero
airspeed. Was it tootleing along in level flight and then popped
it's nose up into a high AOA, slowing to a virtual standstill and
recovering? Or did it just stall out in a climb? Technically a
stopped aircraft in the air is a stopped aircraft. Also, while the
idea of a rearward firing missile is unusual it makes one wonder if
the Russians are so confident that they're going to be at the ****-end
of an air-to-air engagment that they need to develope a missile for
just that occassion.