{"id":151297,"date":"2024-11-24T13:00:26","date_gmt":"2024-11-24T03:00:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/cobra-maneuver-useless-in-combat\/"},"modified":"2024-11-24T13:00:26","modified_gmt":"2024-11-24T03:00:26","slug":"why-is-the-cobra-maneuver-mostly-useless-in-combat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=151297","title":{"rendered":"Why Is The Cobra Maneuver Mostly Useless In Combat?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Cobra maneuver is an example of aerobatic supermaneuverability first pioneered by the             <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\" data-id=\"204353\"style=\";  ;\" class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/tag\/sweden\/\"  >Swedes<\/a><\/span> with the Saab 35 Draken decades before the Soviets named it. The maneuver has become associated with Soviet and later Russian             <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\" data-id=\"58724\"style=\";  ;\" class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/tag\/fighter-jets\/\"  >fighter jets<\/a><\/span> (particularly the             <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\" data-id=\"652038\"style=\";  ;\" class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\"><span>Su-27 Flanker<\/span><\/span> family of fighter jets). While it is indisputably one of         <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink-article\" data-id=\"2026107\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/fighter-jet-airshow-maneuvers-explained\/\" >the most awe-inspiring fighter jet maneuvers to see<\/a><\/span>, does it actually have any value in an air-to-air fight?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Taking a closer look at the maneuver.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[396,7786,628,412,3434,8674],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-151297","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aircraft","category-f-22-raptor","category-fighter-jets","category-military","category-russian-air-force","category-sukhoi-su-57"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151297","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=151297"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151297\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":151298,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151297\/revisions\/151298"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=151297"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=151297"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=151297"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}