ACEVAL AIMVAL | Grumman Film
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- Опубліковано 8 лют 2025
- ACEVAL-AIMVAL is a late 1970s Grumman Aerospace film covering the joint test and evaluation programs between the US Navy and US Air Force.
From 1974 to 1978 the US Navy and Air Force conducted two joint evaluations called ACEVAL (Air Combat Evaluation) and AIMVAL (Air Intercept Missile Evaluation). The controversial tests pitted Navy F-14 Tomcats and Air Force F-15 Eagles against F-5E Tiger II aggressor aircraft in visual range engagements. The testing results led to the development of the AIM-120 AMRAAM and demonstrated that situational awareness was “the single most important factor affecting engagement outcomes”.
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To compensate for the lack of a TV with a 2.5x zoom. The Air Force went low tech and attached some large rifle scopes to their gun sights. The F-5s also used Fuzbusters as radar warning receivers. This program proved that higher technology with fewer airframes would beat low technology with more airframes. It also paved the way for radar that could identify aircraft types at a longer range. It also showed the need for the AIM-120.
Fun story about this exercise. Due to the F-5's not having a search Radar or any form of Radar Warning Equipment the F-14s and F-15s could pick and choose when they did their engagements to deny the F-5's a chance of getting a shot off back and the F-5's were getting the crap kicked out of them. Cue some of the F-5 pilots going down to Las Vegas and buying top of the range wide band police speed gun detectors fitted with an indicator to show which direction the illuminating radar was coming from. They mounted them on the cockpit combing and the kill ratio became one to one.
Only USAF and US Navy f-5Es didn't have Radars and RWRs, most other countries upgraded their F-5Es with radar, RWR and some times even IRSTs as soon as suitable systems were available to be fitted on the airframe. For example Brazil bought a lot of F-5E/Fs on the late 1970s and throughout of the 1980s, and since the eighties they were upgraded with Israeli Radars and RWR systems in the 1980s and 1990s, and the planes still in active duty until all Saab/Embraer Gripen E/Fs are delivered, called F-5 EMBR/FMBR, have been upgraded in the mid 2000s with newer and better radars, RWR, IRST and on-board computers from Israeli ELBIT and Italian/British Leonardo.
Heck even Iranian F-5s have Radar and RWRs.
The exercise was run inside 30 miles.. You don't need radar at that range. You could see them...
I read that every time the blue force (Tomcats and Eagles) figured out an advantage, the rules were changed against them.
No Dangerzone intro music??
Epic
Looks like early archer helmets
VTAS, probably VTAS 3. We fielded HMD's LONG before Russia. Multiple Phantom squadrons were equipped with it.
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