So what is the movement of roller maneuver? In short, roller maneuver means that the aircraft is attached to the outside of a barrel wall and flies forward in the form of a spiral. During this maneuvering process, although the flight status of the fighter does not change much, the route becomes a spiral shape. Through such movement, the flight distance of the fighter increases, but the advance distance is very short.

When the missile era is not yet approaching, this maneuvering action is very useful. Through roller maneuvers, escaped fighters can allow enemy aircraft to rush forward, thus occupying favorable positions and turning defeat into victory. For the attacking side, pursuing fighters can also rely on roller maneuvers to prevent the aircraft from being far ahead due to their speed. With the emergence of air-to-air missiles, this close-range maneuvering action becomes smaller and smaller under actual combat conditions, but in peacetime confrontation and interception operations, it often becomes a routine for fighters to play with the opponent's large reconnaissance aircraft or bombers.

As a country with combat blood, the Soviet Union not only had roller maneuvers, but also had things like the Barents Sea scalpel. At sea, the famous "our ship was ordered to hit your ship". After the end of the Cold War, Russia, which inherited this legacy, was still strong and repeatedly showed an extremely tough style. Earlier this year, a Russian Su-27 fighter bravely entered the bomber and fighter formation of NATO, which was exciting. The latest bold move of the Russian fighter was when on November 25, 2017, a Su-30 fighter approached within 50 feet of the US P-8 anti-submarine patrol aircraft, causing violent turbulence in the latter's body.

Not only the Su-27 series fighter jets, but many other fighter jets can also play tricks in front of large US aircraft. Overall, the light airfield defender MiG-21 is considered to be a very good fighter jet at rolling maneuvers. Before the P-8A, the US reconnaissance aircraft were mainly propeller aircraft with slow speed. Relying on this feature, US pilots often make tricky moves and make the opponent's fighter jets rush forward in an instant.

Jet fighters are fast and unstable when sailing at low speeds, and they seem unfamiliar when performing interception tasks. Therefore, when intercepting such large low-speed aircraft, pilots must have extremely high driving skills, keep a very close distance and perform various flexible maneuvering actions, and at the same time avoid collisions with large aircraft to avoid accidents such as planes being destroyed and killed.

Although the US military always scolded other countries for using roller maneuvers to harass their spy planes, its own fighter pilots were not good kids. For example, in early 1974, such a thing happened. At that time, a Russian Tu-95 bomber was close to the US military's defense zone, so the US Air Force sent an F-4 fighter to intercept. The Russian bomber pilot seemed to be interested in examining the US fighter pilot, so he gestured to ask them to do roller maneuver. Of course, the US Air Force pilot was not outdone and smoothly made a roller maneuver around the Tu-95 strategic bomber. Moreover, the scene was filmed. Later, when the US pilot was asked whether the action was dangerous, he pointed out: "This is very safe."

In fact, from the Cold War to the present, it is not uncommon for US fighter jets to engage in dangerous actions when intercepting large aircraft, especially US Navy pilots, which are all bold and reckless. However, the US military often exaggerates when suffering losses, while taking advantage of them is very low-key. This is to facilitate the use of a double standard when fighting verbal battles and put itself in a favorable position. This means that if the US military uses roller maneuvers one day to talk about it, there is actually no need to pay attention to it.
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