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Israeli pilots went to TOPGUN and taught instructors tactics for F-4 versus MiG-21
After the 1973 Yom Kippur War, the Israelis dispatched an F-4 crew to TOPGUN
New tactics are acquired in battle, lost or discarded when conflict...
The most thrilling one-on-one naval aircraft duel ever took place between Showtime 100 and Colonel Toon
Although Toon now appears to have been a propaganda mashup of multiple excellent North Vietnamese pilots, the Showtime 100 crew met a fantastic dogfighter...
The “Top Gun from Down Under,” Clive Robertson “Killer” Caldwell, is the most Australian thing ever
Clive Robertson "Killer" Caldwell, a flying ace, merciless killer, bootlegger, mutineer, prosperous businessman, and national hero, embodies all that is uniquely Australian
The most successful...
Jet ace Giora Even-Epstein talks about his friendship with US Navy’s ace Randy Cunningham
Duke took me on a visit to TOPGUN and I got to meet with the pilots there. The meeting was planned to last just...
The first Top Gun Graduates to kill a MiG was one of these “Phantom Boys”
Beaulier went after the second MiG, using a ‘lag pursuit’ tactic to give his F-4J Phantom II the correct distance for an AIM-9D shot…
After...