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F-4B VF-111 Sundoweners vs mig -21 Vietnam war
The mig -21 entered service in 1966 in Vietnam. The type was not known to the Americans and caused real concern - it was nimble fast and unlike the Phantom didn't leave a black smoke from the engines !
The mig-21 was using a tactic to come from above at 1.5 mach and released the Attol missile which was the russian copy of the sidewinder on the American fighters.
Only two NAVAL american fighters could handel it at the time - F-4 Phntom and F-8 Crusader .
The Crusader kill rate against the mig fighters was better than the Phantom but I will talk about it in later chapters.
Yair
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