alt Hacker News…against the viet cong, where the biggest risk was the pilot getting pierced from small arms fire (in addition to the helo going down from pilot error). Quite different from the anti-air weapons modern day Iran possesses.
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greedo • yesterday at 10:12 PM
You're conflating the Viet Cong with North Vietnam.
bigyabai • yesterday at 7:52 PM
Or a MiG-17 that could outrate your F-4/F-105 at every subsonic flight regime.
Are you aware that hundreds of American fixed wing aircraft were lost to surface to air missiles in North Vietnam? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_U.S._aircraft_losses_t...