Commander Dose was on a History Channel episode of Dogfights featuring this fight. Great stuff! Thank you for having him on. Always love hearing from the men who fought these engagements. I learn a lot.
Another fascinating interview. Thank you, Jell-O, I really rate your interviewing style: you're so engaged and yet give plenty of 'breathing room' for your guests to tell their story. When I was an Air Force cadet looking forward to flight school, we lapped up interviews with Vietnam aces. This one with Dose ranks right up there.
I would of hated to fly anything back then that didn’t have a gun. I know during F4’s development they thought the dogfight was dead because “missiles” but to have been able to spray those MIG’s waiting to take off and then go get my bandit would of been epic!
It was meant as a carrier-borne interceptor to shoot-down bombers before they could get within missile range of the carrier battle group. It needed a big Radar/Radome and every bit of weight counts, especially for a carrier-based jet.
@@FighterPilotPodcast Thanks for the reply. 2)Have you ever heard of Superhornet being equipped with AIM-7 Sparrow or had they gone exclusively with AMRAAM by then?
Yes, a Super Hornet can do that, but with six AIM-120s instead of four AIM-7s, and a gun in addition AIM-9s that have a head-on capability they didn't have in Vietnam. We learned a lot from Vietnam, which is why the aircraft developed in the 1970s are just now leaving front-line service.
@@wesleyworley8982 6 AIM-120, 4 AIM-9, gun and 2 bags. Mach 1.3 straight/level. Fleet E/F Superhornet. More than a few pilots state that combat loadouts relegate the E/F Hornet to subsonic speeds.
