Название: MiG 17 and MiG 19 Units of the Vietnam War 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.
The Vietnamese People's Air Force - Khong Quan Nhan Dan Viet Nam - began life in the 1940s virtually from scratch, its development being helped by supportive communist countries such as the USSR and China. Yet despite the aid of these superpowers, when hostilities with America really heated up in 1964, the VPAF had only one regiment of MiG-17 fighters with which to 'welcome' the USAF and US Navy aircraft (superior in numbers and technology) that were pushing into their airspace. By the end of the war, however, things were different, and the VPAF had at hand a considerable number of aircraft of much better quality.
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