Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-628612-20150504212915/@comment-25370154-20150504220719

The theorical movement you described reminds me the "Crazy Ivan" submarine counter-manouver performed by USSR submarines in order to counter pursuing US submarines.

If we were in the real world, I would say that any aircraft with reverse wings should easily stall at low speed, so an X-02 performing an high-G turn would have a lot of problems.

Also, consider that a G-turn requires pitch, not yaw, so even a 2D thrusted vectoring could be enough to out-manouver an enemy aircraft...