Comment by dmix

Yep Russians will be dodging AMRAAM not dogfighting Vulcan guns, and Cobra doesn’t help much with that. Although the vector thrusting and braking that provide an aircraft the means to do Cobra might help against air-to-air and SAM/manpads.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AIM-120_AMRAAM

Otherwise it’s just a pretty display at air shows.