Name: F-8 Crusader: Vietnam 1963-73 (en Inglés)
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Author: Davies, Peter E. ; Laurier, Jim ; Hector, Gareth
ISBN: 9781472857545

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Formato

Libro Físico

Autor

Peter E. Davies

Ilustrado por

Jim Laurier

Gareth Hector

Editorial

Osprey Publishing (UK)

Idioma

Inglés

N° páginas

Encuadernación

Tapa Blanda

Dimensiones

24.4 x 18.0 x 0.4 cm

Peso

0.27 kg.

ISBN13

9781472857545

Categorías

Siglo xx - c. 1900-c. 1999
Fuerzas aéreas
Historia general y del mundo
Historia militar
Aeronáutica y aviación

F-8 Crusader: Vietnam 1963-73 (en Inglés)

Peter E. Davies (Autor) · Jim Laurier (Ilustrado por) · Gareth Hector (Ilustrado por) · Osprey Publishing (UK) · Tapa Blanda

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With specially commissioned artworks and dynamic combat ribbon diagrams, this volume reveals how the 'last of the gunfighters', as the F-8 was dubbed by its pilots, prevailed against the growing MiG threat of the Vietnamese People's Air Force. When the Vietnam War began, the F-8 was already firmly established as a fighter and reconnaissance aircraft. It entered combat as an escort for Alpha strike packages, braving the anti-aircraft artillery and surface-to-air missiles alongside the A-4 Skyhawk bombers and meeting MiGs for the first time on 3 April 1965. Although the Crusader was nicknamed 'last of the gunfighters', its pilots employed 'secondary' AIM-9D Sidewinder missiles in all but one of their MiG kills, with guns also used as back-up in three. Its 20 mm guns were unreliable as they often jammed during strenuous manoeuvres, although they were responsible for damaging a number of MiGs. However, in combat the F-8 had the highest 'exchange ratio' (kills divided by losses) at six-to-one of any US combat aircraft involved in the Vietnam War. Through the copious use of first-hand accounts, highly detailed battlescene artwork, combat ribbon diagrams and armament views, Osprey's Vietnam air war specialist Peter E. Davies charts the successful career of the F-8 Crusader over Vietnam.