Название: MiG-17/19 Aces of the Vietnam War (Osprey Aircraft of the Aces 130)Автор: Istv?n Toperczer
Издательство: Osprey Publishing
Год: 2016
Формат: True PDF
Страниц: 98
Размер: 37 Mb
Язык: English
At the beginning of the Vietnam War, the Vietnam People's Air Force (VPAF) were equipped with slow, old Korean War generation fighters - a combination of MiG-17s and MiG-19s - types that should have offered little opposition to the cutting-edge fighter-bombers such as the F-4 Phantom II, F-105 Thunderchief and the F-8 Crusader. Yet when the USAF and US Navy unleashed their aircraft on North Vietnam in 1965 the inexperienced pilots of the VPAF were able to shatter the illusion of US air superiority.