The experiment did not go well for the F-105. Encountering a MiG-21, the F-105 crew should try to flee, the testers advised. If the F-105 was behind the MiG-21 and the MiG flier didn’t know it, the ...
After WWII, people at the Pentagon thought seriously about fighting and winning a nuclear war. Neither nuclear submarines nor ICBMs had yet been invented, so the primary way of delivering the ...
The U.S. military’s new F-35 Joint Strike Fighter can’t turn fast enough to defeat a much older F-16 in mock air combat, according to an official test pilot report that War Is Boring obtained. So how ...
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How the U.S. Air Force Learned to Love the F-105 Thunderchief
When the Republic F-105 Thunderchief first debuted in 1955, the new supersonic fighter did not impress its pilots. The Air ...
On an overcast afternoon in 1967, 1st Lt. David Waldrop was in the cockpit of an F-105D—call sign “Crossbow 3”—as part of a mixed force of 36 F-105s and F-4 Phantoms aiming to strike Yen Vien, the ...
In the early years of the Cold War, both the United States and the Soviet Union were engineering and producing new fighter jets and bombers at a historic rate. The Korean War saw the first combat ...
Click to open image viewer. The F-105 was designed as a supersonic, single-seat, fighter-bomber capable of carrying nuclear weapons or heavy bomb loads at supersonic speeds. The F-105D variant was an ...
DAVIS-MONTHAN AIR FORCE BASE, Ariz. — Former F-105 Thunderchief pilots held a reunion at Davis-Monthan Air Force Base, Arizona, Nov. 2-5. After approximately 15 years of get-togethers, this reunion ...
Considered the biggest single engine fighter of its day, it became known as the one-man Air Force. When it was first produced, the F-105 was the biggest single-engine, single-seat fighter aircraft ...
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