If you like these sorts of museums you would proabably really enjoy some of the ones they have in Vietnam. There are a lot of them all over the place mostly from the war with USA. The tunnel systems and bunkers are just unreal.
If you like these sorts of museums you would proabably really enjoy some of the ones they have in Vietnam. There are a lot of them all over the place mostly from the war with USA. The tunnel systems and bunkers are just unreal.
Oh yes. I definitely enjoy going through all these relic weapon. The reason I care is because it's relate to this country I was born. Also, the Skyhawks we purchased was 88 units of used fighter jets from the Merican, only about 40 of them flown again 😅 lesson learned, don't buy second hand war planes. Matter of fact, don't buy discontinued war planes 😅
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In the original Top Gun (1986) movie, the character Jester (played by Michael Ironside) flies a Douglas A-4 Skyhawk.
Jester, along with the other TOPGUN instructors like Viper, used the A-4 Skyhawk as an "aggressor" aircraft to simulate enemy MiG fighters during training exercises against the student pilots in their F-14 Tomcats. The A-4 was chosen in real life by the Navy's Fighter Weapons School (NFWS) for this role due to its nimble performance and the fact that it was readily available as older models were being decommissioned.
In the film, the A-4s were painted in a camouflage scheme or a flat black to represent the fictional "MiG-28" enemy aircraft.
I had no idea that the mig was a fake plane. I guess they didn't want to insult anyone.
Oh no. Back in the 80s before NATO was fully formed with the eastern Europe who largely has a collection of MIGs, even the Merican don't have access to any of those USSR fighter jets. So, naturally the navy will have to "make do" with whatever they have in hand, to simulate the USSR fighters.
It's different these days. Especially in my home country, a unique experience when the air force houses both Russian and US technologies at the same time. Here I found the Gonky YouTube where he was posting as a fighter pilot instructor for the royal air force, he has a chance to go head to head with the SU30 Russian multi role fighter in an older version of F/A18. It's like fighting real life super Mario Bowser but you know you're in a safe practice environment.