
Название: F-100 Super Sabre Units of the Vietnam War
Автор: Peter Davies, David Menard
Издательство: Osprey Publishing
Серия: Osprey Combat Aircraft 89
ISBN: 978 1849084468
Год издания: 2011
Язык: English
Cтраниц: 96
Формат: True PDF
Размер: 3,2 MB
Osprey's examination of the F-100 Super Sabre Units' participation in the Vietnam War (1955-1975). While the F-105 Thunderchief and F-4 Phantom flew the majority of the fighter-bomber missions over North Vietnam, the Thunderchief's service predecessor, the F-100 Super Sabre stayed on to fight the air war in South Vietnam until June 1971. Although it was designed as an air defence fighter, and was later given nuclear capability as the mainstay of Tactical Air Command's deterrent posture, it was the F-100's toughness, adaptability and reliability that made it ideally suited to the incessant 'taxi-rank' close support and counter-insurgency missions in Vietnam.