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No Crusader gun kills?
If I'm not mistaken, there were only 3-4 kills out of the 19-20 that the Crusader got in Vietnam. The rest were Sidewinder kills. So like I said below, this goes against the idea of the gun being critical to a-a success in Vietnam. Only a fool would argue that it wouldn't have helped to have a gun on all the F-4s, but it wouldn't have been as revolutionary as some claim IMO. There were F-4 gun kills too, but again, far fewer than missile kills (even for the -E). ROE, training, NCTR, and missile reliability were the more critical factors IMO. TV |
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