How to do a cobra maneuver?

[Foxtrot39]

Could be usefull for certain situation or as improvised airbrake for my german jets

Failed to find tutorial about it

[Parminio]

You can't with any aircraft in this game. Period.

The Cobra didn't come about until you had about 27,000 pounds of thrust at your disposal. That simply does not exist in this game.

[Foxtrot39]

I saw a bearcat Wildcat doing one T-T

[Echorion]

Originally posted by Parminio:

You can't with any aircraft in this game. Period.

The Cobra didn't come about until you had about 27,000 pounds of thrust at your disposal. That simply does not exist in this game.

This. We are talking about a technique that didn't exist until like what, late 80s?

Nothing in this game has that kind of thrust.

[Foxtrot39]

Just to say by cobra maneuver I mean the maneuver that quickly put your plane at 90°, bleeding out a high amout of energy in a split second

[Desert Kitsune MarlFox]

Originally posted by Foxtrot39:

Just to say by cobra maneuver I mean the maneuver that quickly put your plane at 90°, bleeding out a high amout of energy in a split second

cut engine, use flaps, pull up

[Foxtrot39]

Maneuver itself gotta take about less than 2 sec too

[Desert Kitsune MarlFox]

Originally posted by Foxtrot39:

Maneuver itself gotta take about less than 2 sec too

best you can do is what i said cut engine, deploy flaps, pull up and deploy airbreaks if you have them

[Echorion]

Originally posted by Foxtrot39:

I saw a bearcat doing one T-T

No you didn't.

Originally posted by Desert Kitsune MarlFox:

Originally posted by Foxtrot39:

Maneuver itself gotta take about less than 2 sec too

best you can do is what i said cut engine, deploy flaps, pull up and deploy airbreaks if you have them

You saw this.

[Coelian]

Why dont you try the kurwa maneuver

[Foxtrot39]

1.It doesn't work on all planes

2.There is more to it than just point the mouse at 90° and use flaps, especialy when you go to fast to use those

3.Do you think I really gonna test out the maneuver on all aircraft without knowing enough of the basics of how to perform it?

4.Try to make a flat spin while moving foward and not downward not that easy, and even if I have an idea I can't lock the entire tail control for a few seconds

[Bacon Cheeseburger Apocalypse]

Originally posted by Foxtrot39:

Maneuver itself gotta take about less than 2 sec too

You won't be able to with the jets in this game. That tactic wasn't invented until the 70's - 80's for a reason. Its because it wasn't until jets like the Mig-29 came along that you had the power to pull such a manuver. To effective pull it off you need to be going much faster then what planes in the game can do, and then pull a 90 degree angle so your enemy on your 6 flys past you. Try to do that in a plane in this game and you basically become a static target in the air.

The only way you can pull anything like a cobra in this game is if your opponet is very close to you, then you cut your throttle to 0 so they fly past. Even then if you try to angle your nose up you'll be going too slow. And without any kind of misslte lock or fire and forget technology in the game you'll have to get your gun sights back on them. Without any speed they'll have enough time to fly past and either out turn you and get back on your 6. Or dive and out run you while you're struggling to speed up.

If you're trying to use real life air manuvers in this game you're better off studying the tactics used by pilots in the time period these planes are from.

[Foxtrot39]

Well I found out a way to more or less get a similar result but it required some kind of tail control damage that would constantly make my plane to pull up

i know there there is a pitch option to manualy control your elevator but it require you to press 3 key at once so isn't helping when getting chased, adn not like my entire keyboard is already binded to a option...

[Bacon Cheeseburger Apocalypse]

Originally posted by Foxtrot39:

Well I found out a way to more or less get a similar result but it required some kind of tail control damage that would constantly make my plane to pull up

i know there there is a pitch option to manualy control your elevator but it require you to press 3 key at once so isn't helping when getting chased, adn not like my entire keyboard is already binded to a option...

If you got it to work post a video of it becuase I would like to see it.

[Foxtrot39]

Well gonna take some time, that happen after tail contol damage in my Bf 109 U7 E2 or the one you got with the dog tag, and that wasn't intended however I found some videos :

Wilcat at low speed pulling out that doing it in a split second (going at 90°) this is what I am willing to learn even though its more plane specefic for this one and for low speed)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mj77kqL-dWc

A fail version in a Bf 109 G6 that worked yet a bit too close the ground to be retake control (foward flatspin, kind of what I try to make to begin training on it yet without crashing)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CoiYpLmL8e8

[Echorion]

Originally posted by Foxtrot39:

Just to say by cobra maneuver I mean the maneuver that quickly put your plane at 90°, bleeding out a high amout of energy in a split second

You can do something like that in prop planes/war thunder, but please understand as you see in those videos that is not a cobra for numerous reasons, and there even more are problems after they face 90° upwards because they are simply not the proper equipment, which you see demonstrated in those videos.

That being said, I can/would love to help you do what they are doing in those videos, certainly!

You need to have your Pitch axis bound to 2 keys, mine are Q and E myself.

When going at a moderate speed (Not too slow or too fast), take a hard dive down using your Pitch axis keys, then pull up using them hard, using the intertia of your tiny dive to ride up to a 90° angle (Some planes you could go beyond but being props it would be counter productive), then use them again to pull your self back down into a straight line.
I usually do it with WEP on the whole time.

It might take you a few tries, and not every vehicle will have the same effect.
Planes with better climb rates and manuverability, like spitfires have the easiest time doing this.