Автор: Lou Drendel
Название: Modern Military Aircraft Eagle
Издательство: Squadron/Signal Publications
Год: 1992
ISBN: 0897471687
Язык: English
Формат: pdf
Размер: 38,1 mb
Страниц: 64 p.: ill.
The 1960’s were one of the most difficult periods in the history of the American military. They found themselves increasingly committed to a war in the Southeast Asia that American politicians were increasingly unwilling to fully support, and yet were not willing to end. As the war escalated, the Air Force discovered that their airplanes... airplanes that had been designed in the 1950’s for all-out nuclear war, left a lot to be desired when it came to fighting a conventional...or in the case of Vietnam, a semi-conventional war.
The principal fighter of the Vietnam War was the McDonnell Douglas F-4 Phantom II. If any one man could be considered the father of the F-15 it would bе Mаjor John Boyd. What finally emerged from Boyd’s studies was a fighter with high thrust to weight ratio and low wing loading. It was optimised...not to necessarily go high or fast...but to maneuver.