The Mach 2, 25-ton F-105 could create an enormous sonic boom. During the Vietnam War, the fighter-bomber flew dangerous missions and suffered heavy losses. In May 1968, the Vietnam War was at its peak ...
The Republic F-105 Thunderchief, known to its crews as the Thud, was a cornerstone of US Air Force strike capability during the early Cold War and Vietnam War. Designed in the 1950s as a supersonic ...
On an overcast afternoon in 1967, 1st Lt. David Waldrop was in the cockpit of an F-105D—call sign “Crossbow 3”—as part of a mixed force of 36 F-105s and F-4 Phantoms aiming to strike Yen Vien, the ...
After WWII, people at the Pentagon thought seriously about fighting and winning a nuclear war. Neither nuclear submarines nor ICBMs had yet been invented, so the primary way of delivering the ...
The experiment did not go well for the F-105. Encountering a MiG-21, the F-105 crew should try to flee, the testers advised. If the F-105 was behind the MiG-21 and the MiG flier didn’t know it, the ...
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