Comments by "Titanium Rain" (@ChucksSEADnDEAD) on "The First "Ghost of Kyiv" - Vietnam Super Ace "Colonel Tomb"" video.

The Phantom still scored the vast majority of kills by missile, with the addition of the gun not making much of a difference. Even the F-8, "the last gunfighter", claimed more kills by Sidewinder than by gun.
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This is not true. By 1972 the introduction of Teaball allowed the USAF to outscore the Navy with a whopping 15 to 1 kill ratio until operations ended in 1973. Not only did they have better training and improved cockpit "switchology", they were at this point fixing the major issue which was terrible ground radar coverage.
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And then the official channels confirmed it wasn't true.
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@navyreviewer It's important to also consider two issues - the Navy had the better Sidewinders as they correctly predicted before the war that the 9B wouldn't cut it and started developing an upgrade before Vietnam, and the USAF had better luck with the Sparrows because as the Ault report confirmed the Navy Sparrows were subjected to the harsher conditions of carrier service but with looser maintenance scheduling than USAF Sparrows.
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I'm sure there's pictures of those 14 aircraft. Because I only saw a struck Russian Mi-8.
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@quisqueyanguy120 Once a missile is off the rail, it doesn't care which generation of fighter shot it. Especially when it's 4.5 gen vs 4th gen.
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@asherwiggin6456 First shot is based on first look. The Ukrainian tactic (which Russians quickly adapted to) was to bait a Russian fighter into shooting and try to escape, knowing the Russian would easily chase him down and kill him. However, as the Russian pilot gabe chase, there would be a Ukrainian wingman flying low that would spring up from below and shoot at the Russian. A trap. Elephant in a hallway. The vast majority of pilots show down in air combat did not know they were targeted until it was too late. This is the prime example. Doesn't matter the Ukranian fighters are less modern, doesn't matter their missiles don't have "first shoot" capability". First shoot is based on the wingman seeing the chase aircraft while the chasing aircraft is focused on shooting down the bait aircraft. In Vietnam the NV pilots countered then Phantom by waiting for them to be escorting bombers at slow speed, fly around them and strike from behind at high speed. Doesn't matter the Phantom was superior, they got trapped. Then Phantom pilots responded by flying in bomber formation. When NV pilots expected to target Phantoms escorting bombers, turned out it was a full flight if Phantoms looking for a fight. That's another trap.
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There was no overthrow. Yanukovych passed laws against free speech and limiting the right to protest, then had hired thugs and police beat down protesters. People rose up in defiance of the new laws, police started shooting steel slugs meant to disable engine blocks into crowds. The Berkut special unit (Russian-trained) was also suspected of using snipers to target both police and protesters to escalate the violence and get Kiev under martial law. After all of this, Yanukovych feared prosecution so he fled to Mother Russia. His own party disavowed him, and the parliament voted to officially remove him from power. He wasn't overthrown. He fled because he was a coward who didn't want to face the charges for the deaths. And fled to the country he was truly loyal to.
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There's more of them than before. Grab the mop, there's more cleaning to do.
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Hoax.
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One side is clearly better than the other. Would you rather tell a story about a pilot who didn't exist, or be pointing at pixels in a video to claim that corpses are moving and the massacres are fake?
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@timhaley3459 White lies are better than red blood.
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