Mig 21 Bombing Video

[Wmaker]

There was some large caliber tracer fire from the edge of the video taking shots at that Mig21.  Makes me wonder what was there, and what the target was.

Based on the sound and seeming availability to the rebels, I'm guessing the gun was ZU-23-2.

[wpeters]

To bad the Rebs cant field some P51 or Tempest for brewsters.   Imagine a brew with 2 Atoll weapons hanging under the belly. Or even the 51.  It could take the weight and the  21 would have a hard time engaging I would imagine.

[redcatcherb412]

Never got a video, but was under F100 bombing runs in 1968 south of Saigon that felt close enough to reach out and touch them.
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brigade combat photog got this one from the paddies at a safe spot from the frontline, the arrow indicates our ground units positions at the village edge.
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And a ground level view with the buttons from our fatigues seeming to hold us too high off the ground
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The still pics don't do the runs justice like the Mig 21 video.
I always thought the F100 was one righteous bird.

[Gman]

One of my favorite authors, Mark Berent, wrote an awful lot about F100's and their ops out of Bien Hoa during the first years of the war in Vietnam -  Very in depth stuff about air to groud/close air support missions, as well as the weapons, tactics, navigation, refueling, and threats from AAA, as there were few SAMs if any in the South were most of the F100's operated from the base he was located on.  I love the "Hun" myself, it was my first model I was ever given, that plus Berent's first book "Rolling Thunder" of which the F100 played such a large role, has always made the F100 very interesting to me.

The Navy guys call the F8 Crusader the "last of the gunfighters", and in many ways, the F100 is similar for the Air Force IMO - both had 4 20mm single barrel cannons.  Maybe Widewing will stop in and give some insights into the differences between the Colt guns on the F8 and the Pontiac revolver cannons on the F100. 

[MrRiplEy[H]]

Never got a video, but was under F100 bombing runs in 1968 south of Saigon that felt close enough to reach out and touch them.
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brigade combat photog got this one from the paddies at a safe spot from the frontline, the arrow indicates our ground units positions at the village edge.
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(Image removed from quote.)
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And a ground level view with the buttons from our fatigues seeming to hold us too high off the ground
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(Image removed from quote.)
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The still pics don't do the runs justice like the Mig 21 video.
I always thought the F100 was one righteous bird.

 

[Sol75]

LOVE the F-100, what a gorgeous bird.  I have an R/C BVM F-100 sitting in my workshop waiting for me to build her.. not oging to get to it until this winter, but can't wait.  Going with the polished aluminum, not sure which bird im directly going to model, I want polished aluminum, but with some sort of cool paint scheme paired with that look.  Going to power it with a JetCat P-120 turbine.. should be a great bird when I get it done.

[Oldman731]

I always thought the F100 was one righteous bird.

Agreed.  The Thunderbirds, in my mind, will always be flying F-100s.

Had a terrible safety record, though, like most of the Century Series fighters.

Famous Sabre Dance video:  http://www.historynet.com/deadly-sabre-dance.htm

- oldman

[SmokinLoon]

My dad served in Vietnam from May of '68 to May of '69, at Phu Cat AFB as part of the 185th IA Air National Guard.  He said there were F100's taking off constantly at Phu Cat.  At dusk, he and some other guys used to head up in to the hills next to the air base and watch the bombing in the valley below.  The real treat was to be able to watch the B52's light up the valley.  Somehow, dad knew someone "in the know" so he was tipped that a show was going to happen.

He enjoyed watching the F-100's do their thing.  I think he has 500 picture slides of his tour.  No souvenir ears, though.

http://www.f-100.org/images/f-100c_42009.jpg

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phu_Cat_Air_Base

[Tr1gg22]

Heathens!!