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Lots of entertainment there. I still am struggling with the 75% of all sorties by USAF in Rolling Thunder conducted by F-105s. Think about that in modern warfare. If you look at the types and numbers of aircraft lost in Vietnam it is actually quite staggering. Not to complicate matters, but I was under the impression that much more B-52s were lost, just in Operation Linebacker. Johnson and MacNamara aside (pig effers), can you imagine the Cold War turning hot in Europe what kinds of numbers we might have seen? Holy crap.
Aircraft losses of the Vietnam War - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Heres the F105 from the March Air Base museum.
I've checked out a lot of the F 105 sites you are right this is a good! one. The F105 is one of my all time favourite Classic aircraft, along with the Hunter Bucaneer.... They tried very hard to replace Thud with F111 we all know that story.......
Note that last pic contains a load out of 750lb bombs with a .50BMG barrel screwed into the nose to "make the bomb stick". Not sure how that manifests itself in actual real life with 11sec fuses, but I have to imagine that a hardened steel nose would bury that bomb pretty deep.
Lots of entertainment there. I still am struggling with the 75% of all sorties by USAF in Rolling Thunder conducted by F-105s. Think about that in modern warfare. If you look at the types and numbers of aircraft lost in Vietnam it is actually quite staggering. Not to complicate matters, but I was under the impression that much more B-52s were lost, just in Operation Linebacker.
IIRC, the percentage of B-52's lost per sortie/aircraft over Vietnam during the Arc Light strikes was extremely low, comparatively speaking, something like 2%. Yes, several a/c were lost, but compared to the number of B-52's used during the campaign, and the number of sorties they flew, it was extremely low.