Comments by "TheThirdMan" (@thethirdman225) on "" video.

  1. In the greater scheme of things, it wasn't that important. It didn't really have any effect on the course of the war but it did indicate the way things were going.
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  2. Oh ha, ha. Show me one raid where it did that. It comes down to four things: empty but full fuel, full load but empty fuel wing loading and installed power. It doesn't take a lot of research to work out how that plays out and that's what mission planners do.
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  3. Remember this about the MiG-17: the F4 didn't have a gun but the MiG-17 didn't have missiles, so it was a zero sum game. The Navy eventually overcame the lack of gun. There were two kinds of MiG-21. The First was the MiG-21 F-13, which had no radar and could only use heat seeking missiles. The later MiG-21PF had a radar and could fire radar homing missiles in addition to heat-seekers. Which MiG-21 pilots were highly experienced? Only a couple made the transition from the MiG-17 to the MiG-21.
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