Fights on!
 

Phantastic.

Who took the pic?

Looks like a bubble violation to me!

Nice picture. Arm chair quarterbacking, but if that's HABFM it looks like the F-15 should probably be in blower... however that usually only delays the inevitable as the F-22 will just power around your turn circle in a 2 circle fight with those F-119's and almost no drag.

It's impressive / humbling to see. Glad they are in our inventory.

Pretty safe bet the Eagle guy's not in blower since he's still cranium's down in the tube trying to meld, sort, or target........

10 seconds ago this was a 6K offensive set for the Eagle.

Cool
 

Why would the F22 release flares with the opponent that close? Or is he defending a threat further away?

Here's the article
The image in this post was taken from a U.S. Air Force F-15 Eagle from the 131st Fighter Squadron, 104th Fighter Wing, Barnes Air National Guard Base, Massachusetts, during a close range aerial combat exercise against a U.S. Air Force F-22 Raptor from the 154th Wing, Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam, Hawaii.
You can clearly see the two planes maneuvering at very close range, pulling Gs, with the F-22 releasing flares counter measures against (simulated) heat seeking air-to-air missiles.
The dogfight took place off the coast of Penang, Malaysia, Jun. 16, 2014, during “Cope Taufan 2014″ a biennial LFE (large force employment) exercise taking place June 9 to 20 designed to improve U.S. and Malaysian combined readiness.
Both aircraft are currently deployed to Royal Malaysian Air Force P.U. Butterworth, Malaysia.

Ha Ha!! No he's in idle because he's at 500+ knots.
Negative...:cool:

Anyone else thinking photoshop here? :confused:

Are we flying HABFM with a photo ship in extended trail now? ~50 wingspan would make this seem like somewhere in the ball park of a 100-150' pass.

I'm not a photo guy so maybe I'm out to lunch and this is a lucky (or planned shot) from a distant a/c with a serious lens.

Looks like the standard airshow illusion to me. They've already merged, both are under G, certainly reversal time. Wingman thinking, "Oops, how will I get out of this?"