Cockpit Video Of F-18 Hornet Two MiG-21 Air to Air Kills Then Go Bomb Targets in Iraq

Cockpit Video Of F-18 Hornet Two MiG-21 Air to Air Kills Then Go Bomb Targets in Iraq

Here is a Cockpit Video Of F-18 Hornet Two MiG-21 Air to Air Kills Then Go Bomb Targets in Iraq.

That’s the First time in history that an Aircraft Scored an Air-to-Air Kill while carrying bombs

In a First Daylight Raid in Iraq Operation, A flight of four carrier-based F-18c hornets of USS Saratoga was tasked to bomb an Airfield code name H3 in western  Iraq

When one of the USS Saratoga E2C Hawkeye RADAR Aircraft spotted two bandwidths 15 Miles Ahead

All 4 hornet was loaded down with 2000 Pound bombs

But unlike  previous navy carrier-based aircraft hornet was designed to go from ground attack role to Dogfight role with just a flick of a switch

See in the above footage how F-18 destroy two Mig-21 in just 40 seconds while carrying bombs

Following their two kills, F-18 rejoin its formation and continue its bombing attack

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2 comments

  1. Todd G. Westlie

    Those bombs looked a bit like napalm to me. If so, good! Back in my day – early 70’s – nape had been outlawed as being too inhumane to use as a weapon of war. What a bunch of happy horse shit. One of the most effective weapons ever and the bleeding hearts… ugh! I’ll stop there.

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