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The Vietnam War saw some of the most intense air combat of the 20th century - with over 1,737 fixed U.S. warplanes destroyed.
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The Vietnam War saw some of the most intense air combat of the 20th century - with over 1,737 fixed U.S. warplanes destroyed.
Although the F-5 was a lightweight aircraft not intended to rival advanced air defenses, its extensive air-to-air and air-to-ground armaments likely offered unique air-combat...
“I don’t want no teenage queen/ I just want my M14 … “ Military film buffs will instantly recognize those two lines as part...
The Pentagon and Northrop Grumman upgraded a 1960s-era fighter to counter the Soviet MiG-21 in the early 70s, building a new variant of the...
“SA-2s don’t play no games/Just kickin’ *** and a’takin’ names/You’re lookin’ at a bona fide shell-shocked Viet vet…” That is a line from the...
Sure, Rambo might have loved the M60E3 machine gun. But what works in the movies doesn’t always mean success on the battlefield: One of...
Decades ago on March 12, 1968, a top-secret U.S. base on a mountain top in Laos was overrun by an elite force of Vietnamese...
What Made The A-7 Corsair II So Special? Merriam-Webster defines the word corsair as “PIRATE especially: a privateer of the Barbary Coast.” So then, when...
5 Deadliest Guns of Vietnam: During the Second Indo-China War—more commonly known today among Americans simply as the Vietnam War—the communist forces including the...
“Don’t give me an F-105. / ‘Cause I love being alive. She’s great for attack, she soaks all the more flak, / Don’t give me an...