On 3 May 2012, North Korea’s Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) reported on North Korean leader Kim Jong-un, during an inspection tour of North Korean air and air defense units, commenting on a photograph of North Korean pilots who flew in the Vietnam War. Fighter pilots were just the ...
In the early years of the Vietnam War, the performance of American fighter pilots in dogfights appeared to lag far behind their counterparts in the Korean War. In Korea,F-86 Sabre pilotsswept the skies and ran up amazing kill ratios, ending the war with about 10 victories for every F-86...
Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/the-fighter-pilot-podcast/donations 19 min 16/12/2024 Derek "Grinner" Smith got his start like many military pilots: at an airshow as a kid. One look at the English Electric Lightning and Grinner knew the vector for his life. On this...
PilotsMilitary personnelMilitary air strikesArmed forcesVietnam WarThe Warriors: Reflections of a Fighter Pilot, Test Pilot, and Veteran of the Air Wars over Vietnam by Robert E. Ross. Yucca Tree Press (http:// yuccatree.com), Barbed Wire Publishing, 270 Avenida de Mesilla, Las Cruces, ...
Thefighter pilot action movieFlight of the Intruderfeels largely like a lesser version ofTop Gundespite having an interesting premise. It follows a group of pilots frustrated with their dangerous missions bombing meaningless targets. They decide to take matters into their own hands and select their ...
and many things are misunderstood. The least understood facet is why it seemed as though those in power were making our troops fight basically with one hand tied behind them, restricting targets and snatching defeat from the jaws of victory. Fighter pilots were not allowed to bomb certain target...
These MiG 21s are assigned to the 921st Fighter Regiment. The closest, “Red 4326,” is one of the interceptors flown by Nguyễn Văn Cốc. The 13 “kill marks” on its nose represent enemy aircraft shot down by Nguyễn and other pilots who flew the airplane. This airplane is...
performed by Air Force veterans Dick Jonas, Toby Hughes, Chip Dockery, and Bull Durham; Army veterans are Bill Ellis, Saul Broudy, and Chuck Rosenberg. The songs reflect the combat experiences of fighter pilots, gunship and electronic warfare flyers, and the ground troops who fought...(展开...
Before moving onto jet propelled Sabre aircraft, the propeller driven Mustang phase of the war saw SAAF pilots on these sorties coming in ‘low and slow’ into the range of enemy ground based anti-aircraft fire which proved highly dangerous and in operations of this kind using the Mustangs, ...