What is an important event that happened in Vietnam?

Anonymous

∙ 15y ago

Updated: 8/17/2019

Super-sonic jet combat over the skies of North Vietnam. Modern aerial jet duels during the Vietnam War formed (not helped...but BUILT) today's super jet fighter/bombers. Vietnam was the ONLY time in US history that "hi-tech" jet aircraft were used in combat against an AGGRESSIVE & COMPETENT foe!

The results of that combat experience is reflected in the F-16s, F-15s, F-18s, and F-22s of today.

Notice that ALL US fighter/bombers have GUNS installed on them. If it wasn't for the Vietnam experience... they wouldn't have those GUNS. The "former" (they're degressing today) gun fighting schools of Top Gun (US Navy) and RED FLAG (US Air Force) were specifically created to retrain US fighter pilots in the "art" of aerial dog-fighting (not the name used by the schools, they use more scientific names), but to the common reader...it was dog-fighting. The Viet War brought back the good old fashioned gun to gun aerial duel and the skills that went with them.

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∙ 15y ago

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