[freedumb2003]

It looks like it would flex badly in serious dogfighting...

[myknowledge]

You mean induce a compressor stall, flame out or some other engine failure while pulling high-G maneuvers?

Jet engines are seriously complex machinery.

The Flanker would pull a high-G maneuver behind an Eagle or Raptor, but in doing so, the turbofans would flame out, the jet would stall and fall like a stone, with little or no chance of midflight recovery, forcing a pilot ejection.