That's a very well boresighted gun! He is probably very pleased with his weapons troops!
@jerrylclement Жыл бұрын
Taking into consideration what this is… so freaking cool!!!!
@mr.commonense81776 ай бұрын
Perfect gunsite calibration.
@scotto792410 ай бұрын
The villagers were under strict instructions that downed pilots were to be taken alive. Must have been difficult.
@nickmitsialis9 ай бұрын
'Cept missions this low in 'Route Packs One thru Six' were suicide. Where are these missions taking place?
@SpAzZzZz_5 ай бұрын
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@EgoAlters5 ай бұрын
This is footage from Laos in 1969. The F105 featured, is targeting NVA - who were attacking Laos.
@nookie077Ай бұрын
Your comment is confusing.... be more clearer. This "village" must have some extremely combustible rice though.... seing as it looks like an ammo dump goes off from the gun fire at one point.
@jerrylclement Жыл бұрын
1:01 Whoa!!!
@aun70s7911 ай бұрын
💥🔥
@kevinmccorkle747611 ай бұрын
20mm is devastating
@otdosa10 ай бұрын
Especially against a straw hut.
@kevinmccorkle747610 ай бұрын
@@otdosa someone that you know?
@otdosa10 ай бұрын
@@kevinmccorkle7476 good one, but no.
@indaloman809 ай бұрын
Straw huts don't usually explode from 20mm rounds.
@decimated5505 ай бұрын
@@otdosa"the side with the helicopters always loses"
@GrapeFlavoredAntifreeze8 ай бұрын
That M61 don’t fuck around
@themigratingcoconut5626 ай бұрын
watch 2x speed for the real speed I think. Also makes it 2x as smooth so 60fps
@user-il2ye8ww3c7 ай бұрын
F-105 это крутой.😊
@Adair9800 Жыл бұрын
Never flew fighters, so am curious to know what altitude are these guys at? I have read 500 KIAS was preferred, but maybe even higher would be reasonable for the Thud.
@codyking484810 ай бұрын
500 KIAS is an airspeed, not an altitude.
@Adair980010 ай бұрын
My question should have been written more clearly. Yes, 500 KIAS is an airspeed - I've flown aircraft at that speed and above. I am curious to know roughly what altitude most of these passes were flown at. Also, were they usually flown at 500 Kts indicated, or sometimes higher?
@codyking484810 ай бұрын
@@Adair9800 Thuds typically did wing level attacks at 2k feet, wingovers from as low as 8k feet, offset popups from as little as 100 feet with the wingover at 5k-10k. Very maneuverable aircraft despite its age. Gun runs could be from any in hot altitude. It all depended on the threat matrix. As far as airspeed goes, the more speed, the higher in the HUD the pipper would be, so if there was AAA threat, they would absolutely go higher than 500KIAS, but within the restriction of weapons envelope for release to avoid recontact. Edit: what did you fly?
@decimated5506 ай бұрын
these pilots had it easy above southern vietnam strafing 2nd world soldiers. Over the central european plain, a shallow dive over a soviet division would be fatal. The israeli pilots were more skilled in ground attack and strafing - recall the gun camera footage from 1967 six day war attack on egypt airfields, those men were at 100 feet
@Adair98006 ай бұрын
@decimated550 I was aware of the gun camera footage, just haven't seen it yet. Thanks
@JohnDoesItAll5 ай бұрын
I thought they were only used as bombers in vietnam
@EgoAlters5 ай бұрын
This is Laos.
@user-jc4yv7eg7cАй бұрын
Too bad no audio :)
@jeffreyb8770Ай бұрын
Total air superiority . . . and we still lost.
@drewnogy2 ай бұрын
Just what the F-105 was designed for, ground attack.
@insideoutsideupsidedown2218Ай бұрын
That was not what the F105 was designed for.
@simonnomis53025 ай бұрын
well shooting houses isnt a thing...
@CFITOMAHAWK2Ай бұрын
20 years after USA left, Vietnam asked USA to come back as tourist and business, so they wasted their time and lives to ask us to come back 20 years later. It is not full communist anymore. USA Friend. We won. They are not spreading communism anymore.
@user-cg7kq4bx9r8 ай бұрын
shooting wooden huts - no wonder they lost
@lightza52906 ай бұрын
well if u look Crossley u can se secondarty explotinosn from those hutts..this is most likelu cas mission whit troops caling in airstrikes on enemy positions
@lightza52906 ай бұрын
Btw south vietnam lost
@sgttv87976 ай бұрын
France,America and South Vietnam lost so not sure what your talking about .
@GatorGreenGladiator5 ай бұрын
@sgttv8797 congress never signed a declaration of war against NV or VC. I see it as a draw. They had the casualties, we didn't have the hearts and minds at home.
@sgttv87975 ай бұрын
@@GatorGreenGladiator it's your opinion ,your entitled to it ;). But the truth is the states was pushed out and the North rolled over the south.that is what we call a loss.
@thisisafact9181Ай бұрын
Shoot anything shape of a house , typical american war tactics
@indaloman80Ай бұрын
Shooting your mouth off about something you know nothing about, probably your highest and best use. You see the secondary explosions? Google it... How many "houses" flame on with 20 cal hitting it.