Another incomplete story just like the movie. They Navy was losing F-4 Phantom pilots, not F-8 Crusader pilots who still knew had to dogfight and did their own unofficial training. The Navy studied what the F-8 guys were doing right and applied it to the F-4 guys and the TOPGUN school was born. Then the kill ratio went up for the F-4 guys in 1972. The F-8 guys had the highest kill ratio of any fighter plane during the Vietnam War.
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War propaganda in recruitment. Never thought I'd see it on CBN.
Another incomplete story just like the movie. They Navy was losing F-4 Phantom pilots, not F-8 Crusader pilots who still knew had to dogfight and did their own unofficial training. The Navy studied what the F-8 guys were doing right and applied it to the F-4 guys and the TOPGUN school was born. Then the kill ratio went up for the F-4 guys in 1972. The F-8 guys had the highest kill ratio of any fighter plane during the Vietnam War.