The Scissors and the fighter approaches the defending "bandit" (enemy fighter), usually from the bandit's rear hemisphere, and has failed to press an initial positional and angular advantage into a kill, and has "overshot", or passed behind the bandit. (To overshoot is to fly from an AOT (angle-off-tail: the angle between the nose of the attacker and an imaginary extended line from the nose through the tail of the bandit and extending behind it into the air) of less than 90 degrees to an AOT of greater than 90 degrees.) As such, an attacking pilot who finds himself in a flat scissors
Nambu Type 90 than the Imperial Army's Type 10 for a few good reasons. First, they were made in lower numbers than the Army type. Second, they were usually issued to ships and Naval aircraft and were lost when they were destroyed or sank. Third, Soldiers and Marines who found flare guns on the battlefield often threw them away, as they were not seen as collectable as pistols, rifles, or knives. In Hollywood movies (like "Demolition Man (1993)" and "Waterworld (1995)"), the Type 90 is used erroneously as a stand-in for a futuristic shotgun pistol. Nambu Type 90 The Nambu Type 90 was