IIRC, something similar was tried here and the pilots could not withstand the excessive g-force.
“IIRC, something similar was tried here and the pilots could not withstand the excessive g-force.”
Nope, nothing to do with G-force in particular. The F-22 still has thrust vectoring. It is considered less important these days because of high off-boresight missiles like the AIM-9X, which can attack targets more than 90 degrees off the nose of the aircraft.