High-Speed Missile Dodge: Difference between revisions

** A common recommendation in BFM (Basic Flight Manuvers) is to put the missile at 90 degrees off the nose on either side, then break as described in the opening article quote.

** Fighter pilots actually have a slang term for evading an oncoming surface-to-air missile. They call it ''dancing'' with the missile. '''Make of that what you will.'''

* And of course, there's always the other option: "Just go faster."

** The MiG-25 "Foxbat" was fast enough to outrun the earlier versions of the Sidewinder heat-seeking missile. However, modern versions of the Sidewinder fly at speeds of Mach 4 (or ''faster''), outpacing the Foxbat's top speed of 2.5~2.8. The [[Gulf War]] demonstrated just how far [[Tech Marches On|Tech Marched On]], with American F-15s slaughtering Iraqi MiG-25s using that very missile type.