/johnny
Having EVERY weapons system fail would suck out loud!
I remember an old PC game I used to play “US Navy Fighters ‘98” but their version of the F-8 left a lot to be desired.
ADM James Stockdale was flying one of those when he was shot down over North Vietnam.
The weapons sound about as reliable as the US torpedoes in early WWII.
Snort. The Navy/Marine attempt at a high rate of fire gunpod, the Mk4, was a POS because the pnuematic feed tray/system woucl cause jams 9/10 times. Very few of the damn things would work reliably, and the tech reps had no idea why that was.
That first picture of an F8 in this thread was one of “mine”!
I was an Aviation Ordnanceman on the USS Hancock, CVA19 (NP on the tail).
108 was a VF211 bird. Gives me a bit of tear in the eye.
Growing up in a Navy town at the height of the Vietnam War, I used to sit out on my porch and watch these birds and countless A-4s and A-6s fly right down our street into the landing pattern. Later, the A-4s gave way to A-7s and the F-8s gave way to F-4s....I fondly recall one morning though at the beach and looking across the Bay to San Francisco when a division of F-8s came streaking by at maybe 200 AGL...never forget that sight...
The guys who made the cannons and missiles must have made the early torpedoes in WW2 (they failed to explode).
The Man With No Name survived everyth....
Oh, wait a minute.
Never mind.
On 6 October 1973, Egypt launched a massive surprise attack on Israel that included over 200 Egyptian aircraft participating in an opening airstrike.
In one of the first engagements near Israeli Air Force Base Ofir at Sharm el-Sheikh, on the southern tip of the Sinai Peninsula, two Israeli Phantoms engaged 20 Egyptian Air Force MiG-17s and their eight MiG-21 escorts on their way to attack Israeli positions in the area.
By the end of the brief six-minute battle, seven MiGs were confirmed to have been shot down. The remaining MiGs disengaged and the Israeli Phantoms returned to their base