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I know the mig and Sukhoi aircraft could perform it a Farnborough long before we attempted it with the F-18 or any experiment canard aircraft, but I think the Swedish folks did it with the Gripen and the Israeli aircraft the Kfir could perform it briefly as a combat tactic, many have tried but few could sustain it save for the Harrier and canard based aircraft until thrust vectoring and the powerful Turmansky turbo fans were invented, that gave the required power to wieght ratio that the ligher russian aircraft needed to accomplish this. I saw an F-18 do it in 1992 at an airshow in Nevada.
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