The Secret Program That Hid an Even More Secret Program

Support Ward s channel as a Patron at Buy Ward s bestselling debut novel Punk s War at During the Cold War airtoair warfare was alive and well. The Soviets had a huge air force, and their fighters were a viable threat to NATO aircraft. As a result, American fighter crews trained extensively in matters pertaining to shooting down other airplanes. We trained using Top Guns defense in depth theory that was built around the idea that no matter how many forwardquarter, longrange missiles a fighter was carrying, there was a good chance the threat would make it into the visual arena. This arena had many nicknames getting into the phone booth or putting the knife in your teeth but was (and still is) bestknown as dogfighting. The first trick of a dogfight is getting sight of your opponent. The oftrepeated maxim is You cant shoot what you dont see. That trick gets trickier when fighting multiple