F-8 Crusader: Vietnam 1963–73 Peter E Davies Osprey Publishing Αγγλικά Βιβλία History World

With Specially Commissioned Artworks And Dynamic Combat Ribbon Diagrams This Volume Reveals How The ‘Last Of Gunfighters’ As F-8 Was Dubbed By Its Pilots Prevailed Against Growing Mig Threat Vietnamese People’s Air Force When Vietnam War Began Already Firmly Established A Fighter Reconnaissance Aircraft It Entered An Escort For Alpha Strike Packages Braving Anti-Aircraft Artillery Surface-To-Air Missiles Alongside A-4 Skyhawk Bombers Meeting Migs First Time On 3 April 1965 Although Crusader Nicknamed Employed ‘Secondary’ Aim-9D Sidewinder In All But One Their Kills Guns Also Used Back-Up Three 20 MM Were Unreliable They Often Jammed During Strenuous Manoeuvres Responsible Damaging Number However Had Highest ‘Exchange Ratio’ (Kills Divided Losses) At Six-To-One Any Us Involved Through Copious Use First-Hand Accounts Highly Detailed Battlescene Artwork Armament Views Osprey’s Specialist Peter E Davies Charts Successful Career Over Σελίδες: 80 Έτος Έκδοσης: 1031 Διαστάσεις: 18 4X18 4Cm