Evasive maneuvers
The evasive maneuver serves a pursued to evade the influence of an attacker.
The term evasive maneuver is also used in road traffic. Here the evasive maneuver serves to avoid accidents. This can be practiced in driving safety systems.
The following applies to the relationship between the persecutor and the persecuted:
- Passive evasive maneuver: The victim hits quick and unexpected hooks, which makes it difficult to meet or catch up.
- Active evasive maneuver: By carefully observing and foreseeing the attacker's steps, the pursued person can use less energy to induce the pursuer to undertake large-scale operations that exhaust his capacities and cause him to break off the attack or the pursuit.
- Intelligent evasive maneuver: The evasive man steers his pursuer into a predictable attack strategy through his actions, in order to then evade or even counter more efficiently even with a foresight advantage.
The passive evasive maneuver is known from the animal world: rabbits hook tight hooks and thus fool dogs and shooters. In the military field, the logic of the next generation of cruise missiles will be able to carry out passive evasive maneuvers with little reduction in one's own hit quality.
The active evasive maneuver can be observed in the military: fighters prevent the enemy from getting into a firing position , submarines can escape the depth charges of the light corvettes for a long time with moderate expenditure of energy (usually 2 × 12, later 2 × 15 units) whereupon the corvette has to retreat.
The intelligent evasive maneuver is based less on observation than on psychological interaction. It can be found in aerial combat as well as in boxing and especially in fencing, where the offer is intended to get the opponent to attack in a predictable manner. This tactic can even be observed in the animal kingdom. For example, a blackbird hopping on the ground with its wings hanging down to distract a cat from the nest. If the cat accepts the offer, the blackbird flees using first active evasive maneuvers (escape from the cat) and then passive evasive maneuvers (combination of flat hops and fluttering flights around and over obstacles).