
Автор: Istvan Toperczer
Издательство: Osprey Publishing
Серия: Combat Aircraft (Book 25)
ISBN: 1841761621
Год: 2001
Страниц: 96
Язык: английский
Формат: pdf
Размер: 10.16 MB
The erstwhile enemy of the USAF and US Navy during the nine years of American involvement in the Vietnam War (1955-1975), the Vietnamese Peoples' Air Force (VPAF) quickly grew from an ill-organised rabble of poorly trained pilots flying antiquated communist aircraft into a highly effective fighting force that more than held its own over the skies of North Vietnam. Flying Soviet fighters like the MiG-17, and -19, the VPAF produced over a dozen aces, whilst the Americans managed just two pilots and three navigators in the same period.