Growing up as a kid I lived next to a retired Navy A-4 pilot who flew in Vietnam. The stories he told me about flying the A-4 in combat were the stuff of legend.

That part during dogfight where AAA tracer chases you and then slows down to your speed.... so cool!

Thanks. All this stuff was happening when I was a teenager. I later served in the U.S. Army in West Germany from 73 to 75. You do a great job with the history.

NIce touch with b/w 'recon' shots!

Great video! Along the note of your intro narration, some of these pilots became the senior commanders during first Gulf War and made sure this type of limited strategy was never followed again.

There was a VPAF Mig-17 kill by an A-1 Skyraider too. Iirc the Mig went for a head on and got a face full of 20mm.

The A-4 was a great little plane!

Thanks for the information and the viedo. I didn't know that an A-4 had shot down a MiG-17. Great historical contribution from you.

I read once that if a pilot claims to have achieved an air to air kill with unguided rockets, he is either very very very good, or he is lying to you. Great Kill!

You dropped a Mig with a rocket salvo....hell yeah you get a thumbs up!

And that's another hit single from Showtime112 :)

Outstanding Presentation.

Another great story ! I send you this interesting, poorly known story that I got from a French aviation magazine. Story told by then commander of 2nd "escadrille de chasse" (Hunting squadron) Roger Pessidous on the Dijon air base. In 1969 american U-2s regularly overflew France taking photos of the nuclear sites, when confronted the Yanks denied it. The 2 Sq. had performed various flights over 60.000 ft with a rocket boosted Mirage IIIE. The tactic was to climb to 30-40.000 ft and accelerate to MACH 1.8 then light up the SEPR rocket and climb at 1.6 MACH, at rocket burn-out (80sec.) you should be above 60.000 ft maybe 65 depending on atmospheric conditions. There was just enough fuel left to come back to the base. So they planned an interception on the U-2, the first few times they missed it, often because the radar guidance was a little off or because they did not had enough altitude. They were guided by ground radar, the radar on the Mirage had short range and was almost useless for that kind of mission. On the day of the story, the commander himself was driving, it was a pefect day and the boys at the radar station performed flawlessly. He came up from behing the U-2 at 1.7 MACH and 64.000 ft. As he was carriyng a "vulgar of the shelf photo camera" he tried to take a pic (de did) but in doing so he got too close and really shocked the spy plane as it went under it. After that the Yanks stopped all U-2 flight over France as they realised it was vulnerable... until the SR-71 came about. (More details if needed, translated from French) Cheers !

Great video - and the music was a really nice touch! 👍

Wr operated Skyhawks with our RNZAF.. thanks from NZ 👍🇳🇿✈️

The F4 PhantomII is the GOAT fighter (Greatest Of All Time!)

'All war are bankers wars' A short Vietnam war would not have served its purpose

Vietnam's mig don't take off from the big airport, they take off from the makeshift airfield deep in the forest. And you never know they're approaching until you get shot. At large and important airports like this, there is always a dense air defense system with anti-aircraft artillery and anti-aircraft missiles. The movie is good, but it doesn't describe the difficulty in this match because only 1 mig was shot down by A4 during the Vietnam war.

Good mission, Informative too. Thumbs up 39.

Вот такой "горбатой" версии Skyhawk в 1967 г. ещё не было. Англоязычному автору ролика стоило бы знать об этом...

Wow ! 🤩 Feels like one is watching a real Movie 🎥 Great Historical Content as always thx for taking the time providing us with such great Aviation stuff.👍🙏 Just wondering what’s your DCS Hardware Setup a like ? 😉 👍

Great Video, Showtime.

It's funny to see the Navy F-4 in the E version (with the cannon under the nose). I think the Navy ever flew this version of the Phantom.

Excellent video and great shooting, good historic story line don't forget to RTB and let's see how well you on a carrier landing 😀

It's an A-4F. Rockets were banned on Navy aircraft carriers some time in 1967 because they were too unstable in all the RADHAZ present on the roof.

Thank you, great video! Does A-4 have a possibility to drop rocket pods when in trouble?

the nva-af mig-17-fresco sub-sonic but lethal.

Cool music in start

I have been trying to guess your speech accent,no insult intended if I'm wrong,Bosnian ? ,we have people from many nations here in Australia 😊

The A-1 that shot down a MiG during the Vietnam War is a good story.

9:27 Just how did you manage to get those GoPro shots??! 😄😉👍

That many MiG-17s destroyed on the ground would've been crippling to the North Vietnamese Air Force, even more so if they were actually MiG-21 Fishbeds.

In fiecare episod pe care îl umaresc ,MIG-ul iese în evidenta.A fost așa de bun la vremea lui.,?

Pal, you oughta grab opentrack somewhere. Otherwise, the content is very quality!

Where can I get that A-4 mod and the f-4 for DCS ? . . .love these videos ! . . .

Shot with Zunis. Little bitty pieces.

I Love your videos... But... Croatian subtitled? Whyyy?

Why were skyhawks not used further in dogfights with Sparrow n Sidewinders? They could have wiped out Migs

That Navy F-4 had a cannon? Might be the wrong model.

Bathtub vs sharks. Almost. 😄🙂

Why didn't you use the 20mm inboard cannons on the MIG?

Attack Squadron 76 Spirits

zuni rockets vs mig-17. a real dogfighting.

1:40 F4E in navy colors?

Where did the F-4 Phantoms come from. Bon Home Richard CV-31 was incapable of operating them. She would have deployed F-8 Crusaders.

What’s up with your gun sight? It’s way off you have the center pip just out off the glass.

good veiw huh

Let's keep in mind while bemoaning micromanagement from Washington that our political leadership was trying to avoid bringing the USSR into direct and open participation in the war and thereby setting off World War Three. Preserving capitalism in South Vietnam (democracy had nothing to do with it) wasn't worth risking the whole of human civilization. You might notice that the 'loss" of Vietnam was vastly less catastrophic for the West than government and military hawks had hysterically warned us. Still, respect for the men and women who served bravely and professionally.

The rolling thunder campaign reminds me of Nazi Germany's handling of the " Battle of Britian " in 1940 . . . Both complete failures and a waste of airmen and equipment !!

At least use the right F-4. Navy never flew F-4E.

Mozes li napraviti video o obaranju američkih c47 od strane Jugoslavije 1946

When you micromanage nothing gets done. The restrictions on Linebacker made it pointless: you can't fight without experience, and a desk-bound dummkopf who's never flown a mission should never lead a charge. And those Zuni's hit like artillery!!

the music gives me a headache

Too bad those are F4Es...

First!

No F4E for the navy!!!!!