The Red Baron reports were finally declassified in the late 1990s, and while the conclusions do, indeed, emphasize the need for better training, a careful study of the data gives a very different impression of the air war over North Vietnam--one that directly contradicts the conventional wisdom...
On August 1, 1907, the Aeronautical Division of the United States Army Signal Corps was established, and the United States Army purchased its first heavier-than-air aircraft, a Wright Model A, in 1908. It was allocated the serial number 1. Further Army aircraft were assigned serial numbers i...
(assuming that Chinese saboteurs / agents in Japan would note a ton of US aircraft landing and then launching). So you all launch at once, and then what remains of your wing diverts to other operational air fields in the theater. I need to test the feasibility of this - can the air...
The aircraft and/or missiles used by an organization appear in this section. Aircraft are listed by series and number (B-52 or KC-135). Missiles are listed by their official designation and popular names (SM-65 Atlas, LGM-25 Titan II, LGM-30 Minuteman III). Exact dates an organization ...
Use of Agent Purple, Agent Orange and Agent Blue on Royal Thai Air Force Base Perimeters in Thailand during the Vietnam War Seven Royal Thai Air Force bases in Thailand were used by the United States Air Force (USAF) during the Vietnam War as staging hubs for operations in Laos ... KR...
Although this compelled the enemy to sign a peace treaty in January 1973, US forces were no longer available in 1975 when North Vietnam launched a successful invasion of the South. In the 1970s the USAF invested as much of its reduced budgets as possible in modernizing its aircraft and ...
This set contains four 17ml bottles of paint with a color selection tailored for the USAF Southeast Asia (SEA) camouflage scheme applied to tactical aircraft during the Vietnam air war and used well into the 1980s. The colors in this set include: FS 34079 Dark Green FS 34102 Medium Green...
460th TRW Cigarette Lighter, Vietnam era, no maker's marks, minor usage, Used...(sold) - - - - 460th Tactical Reconnaissance Wing, Detachment 1 at Tan Son Nhut The Detachment was a VC-123 VIP Configured Provider aircraft; it was known as General William Westmoreland's "WHITE WHALE"...
It was used as a [pathfinder] to guide the people.- These aircraft were also painted black on the underside of the aircraft as night fighter bombers (night attackers), and were active in the linebacker operations at the end of the Vietnam War.- The LORAND-D antenna is called the [...
117A Nighthawk, the F-15 C/D Eagle, the F-15E Eagle, the F-16 Fighting Falcon, the F-22 Raptor, the F-4E Phanton II, and finally, the Mig-29 Fulcrum, which is only available in multiplayer games. This selection of aircraft covers everything from the Vietnam-era of aircraft to ...