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Red Pheonix- A Couple Of Reality Checks
Sorry for being quasi-on-topic (seems to be rare now!), but I just finished
reading Larry Bond's Red Pheonix (it wasn't very good- FAR too many unbelievable coincidences!!). Besides stretching the plot, I believe he stretches the plausibility of some of the action. So I thought I'd check with some of the folks here who've been there, done that. The A-A moments were generally readable, but the first action described is a nighttime dogfight between F-16s and Mig-21/29s (including guns kills!). Has there ever been a documented case of a nighttime dogfight? Would something like that be possible in a -teen series jet? I'm not talking about an intercept, but a messy, multiplane furball. Seems to me it'd be a great way to get lots of collisions and blue-on-blue kills. One other moment of great implausibility (maybe it happened twice?!) was when an F-16 finishing a bombing run saw a SAM site, and then turned towards it and hosed it with his cannon. OK, that's weak, but for those (Ed and others) who've done Iron Hand/SEAD missions, how often were cannons used agaisnt SAM sites? I would imagine pretty rarely as they would be accompanied by AAA. I think it's been said (by Ed if not others), that dueling ground guns with aerial cannons isn't the best idea in the world. Thanks for any answers. |
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