HUD Footage F, A 18 Hornets score first combat victories Desert Storm 1991
Listened to an excellent podcast recently where one of the pilots involved gave listeners a step by step accounting of this engagement: Decided to consolidate all the known footage with clear audio as provided in the podcast. Audio timeline is compressed as I had to work with existing HUD footage. Summary Excerpt from Bogey s Bandits by Robert Gandt Quicksand 400, two bandits on your nose at A spike of adrenaline surged through Mongo. The controller had said bandits. Not bogeys. Bandits. Or had he Mongo felt a stab of uncertainty. In the radio garble, could he have heard wrong Mongo forced himself to switch his attention inside the cockpitsomething he hated doing at this critical momentjust for a second. He switched his mission computer to airtoair mode. Two sweeps later, there on his radar display, he could see one of the bandits. The radar was electronically identifying the target as a MiG21 Fishbed figh
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