Twenty years prior to 1969 most air forces had been flying piston-engined fighters essentially no different from those of ...

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Of course, the pilots of Attack Squadron 25 had no intention of making history that day. They just wanted to take the fight to the enemy in North Vietnam. But as they made their way through hostile ...

The MiG pilots had completely misjudged the Skyraiders, possibly assuming their speed advantage would ensure early victory—only to be outfought in close combat, where the A-1H Skyraider excelled.

Designed at the height of the Cold War, the MiG-17 (Mikoyan-Gurevich) was one of the most iconic fighters of Soviet military aviation. Originally created to replace the MiG-15, which had already shown ...