AIRCRAFT OF THE VIETNAM WAR

AIRWAR SOUTHEAST ASIA

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"Spooky"

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AC-47D Gunship

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A B-66 bomber and four F-105 Thunderchiefs dropping their bombs on a city in North Vietnam

"Flying under radar control with a B-66 Destroyer, Helps improve accuracy in Bad weather.

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Air Force F-105 Thunderchief pilots bomb a military target through low clouds over the southern panhandle of North Viet Nam. June 14, 1966."

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US Navy Phantoms VF-171 over NAS Oceana

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Who’s the fastest gun in the West? ​If you didn’t say Col. Phil "Hands" Handley, USAF, you’re looking at the wrong stats.

June 2, 1972: Over the skies of Hanoi, Handley notched the world’s only supersonic gun kill, shredding a NVAF MiG-19 with the F-4E’s 20mm cannon while doing Mach 1.2. ​No missiles. No computer magic (well almost). Just a lead pipe cinch at 900+ mph. Crazy feat of deflection shooting!

@RealAirPower1 via X

Ten years earlier, The Smartest People in the Room™ said you didn’t need a gun on a fighter.

They were wrong then, and are wrong now.

@CdrSalamander via X

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Phantastic

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Republics F-105 assembly line Half would be lost to Enemy Action over North Vietnam 🇻🇳

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B-52D’s over North Vietnam 🇻🇳

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HH-34 Seahorse

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A U.S. Navy F-4 Phantom from VF-51 “Screaming Eagles,” in flight over the Coronado Bridge in San Diego.1972

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Did you know the F-111A went to Southeast Asia. Here's one getting refueled by a KC-135A after completing it's combat mission in August of 1973.

National Archive 342-C-K-054241_001

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RF-4C

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#61 Day Yokota Base A-4E

VMA-211 CF-22 149661,

September 1974.

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A menacing look at a sharkmouth F-4E from the 469th TFS "Fighting Bulls" at Korat AFB, Thailand. ​Notice the "long-nosed" Mk 82s? The bombs are equipped with three-foot "Daisy Cutter" fuse extenders, designed to detonate the bombs just above the deck, spreading lethal airburst fragmentation instead of burying the blast in the mud. ​Peak Vietnam-era anti-personnel stuff.

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CH-46 from HMM-265 trailing smoke and flame after being hit by PAVN anti-aircraft artillery. The helicopter crashed and exploded upon impact, killing 13 marines

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F-14A Tomcat, BUNO 159000, Operator: VF-1 Wolfpack, Unit Markings: CVW-14 aboard USS Enterprise (CVAN-65), Location: in flight near Hawaii, USA, Photo Date: 28 September 1974, Photo by LTJG C.C. Curtis, U.S. Navy (National Naval Aviation Museum)

This totally bodacious VF-1 Wolfpack F-14A Tomcat (BuNo 159000) was photographed in flight near Hawaii on September 28, 1974 while assigned to CVW-14 aboard USS Enterprise for a WestPac deployment. Classic early Tomcat action from one of naval aviation’s most legendary squadrons!

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