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F-100 vs Mig -17 Vietnam 1965
The F-100 was served for a brief time as a cap for Migs that could attack the F-105 Thuds. There is a paradox here as the F-100 was nuch slower than the soeedy F-105. In 1965 their were not enough Phantoms in the battle field so the Hun used for that mission but couldn't help much as two Thuds were downed by Mig 17's and their pilots died . Soon Phantoms started to do the cap missions instead and the Phantom crews were able to kill many with a kill ratio of 1:3.
All the F-100 could achieve is a propable Mig 17 kill Compare to the Crusader 19 kills Thud 27.5 and Phantom 120 !!!
The F-100 was serving mostly in South Vietnam where Migs were not operating though .
Some images of the two side by side shows the big difference in size as the F-100 is a much bigger plane.
Yair
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