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F-105 wild weasel VS SA-2 "Guideline" SAM : Vietnam 1965-73

Tác giả: Petter Davies

During the Vietnam War, the appearance of Russian SA-2 missiles around Hanoi in 1965 alarmed US officials. Initially reluctant to attack the missile sites, the increasing toll of US aircraft and the ways in which the SA-2s inhibited bombing tactics meant that new methods of dealing with the sites ...

Us navy A- 1 skyraider units of the Vietnam war

Tác giả: Richard R. Burgess, Rosario M. Rausa

The erstwhile enemy of the USAF and US Navy during the nine years of American involvement in the Vietnam War (1955-1975), the Vietnamese Peoples' Air Force (VPAF) quickly grew from an ill-organised rabble of poorly trained pilots flying antiquated communist aircraft into a highly effective fighting ...

B-57 canberra units of the Vietnam War

Tác giả: Te Bell

Osprey's examination of B-57 Canberra Units during the Veitnam War period (1955-1975). While not receiving as much publicity as the F-105 and F-4 fighter-bombers, which took the fight into the heart of North Vietnam, the B-57 Canberra was nevertheless the first jet-powered American attack aircraft ...

USN F-4 Phantom II vs VPAF MiG-17/19 : Vietnam 1965-73

Tác giả: Peter Davies, Jim Laurier

The Vietnam War placed unexpected demands upon American military forces and equipment, which had been focused on the probability of tactical nuclear warfare. The principal US naval fighter, the McDonnell F-4 Phantom, had originally been designed to defend the Fleet from air attack at long range. ...

F-105 thunderchief units of the Vietnam war

Tác giả: Peter E. Davies

This book explores the crucial importance of the Thunderchief, deemed the "Thud" by many of its crews, in the Rolling Thunder campaign; it explains the pioneering suppression of enemy air defences (SEAD) methods developed by the F-105 'Wild Weasel' crews. Using first-hand narratives wherever ...