| Show How Pilots Avoid Those Sam Missiles After each war Air Force modernists lose faith in manned aircraft and set their sights and goals on missiles and exotic IT WAS argued in the fifties that missiles had already made manned aircraft with pilots obsolete that in any new war missiles would do the job pilots and aircraft had done in world war faster and more That space-age dream overlooked the fact that our big missiles carry nuclear and there is a very good that nuclear war will be avoided for a long lime to non-nuclear missiles such as those carried by fighters to shoot down enemy proved their worth in the Korean War but they were fired by who brought their aircraft into a superior firing position with flying After the Korean the advocates of more exotic and sophisticated weapons again discounted conventional emphasis in the field of manned flight was again placed on super-sophisticated aircraft and on SOME of the super-sophisticated aircraft cost enormous sums of money and some of them were scandalous The Vietnam war showed once again that manned aircraft were the key to military THE NATION was lucky that the Navy had developed the the Air which had failed to develop anything utilized it and its to carry out their fighter and fighter-bomber while using SAC for strategic and close-support The Air Force also didn't have the close tactical air weapon needed and thus depended on the old A-l and more on the IT THEREFORE committed all its sophisticated types and even SAC into its close tactical effort in the recent North Vietnamese And air was probably the only decisively superior advantage the South Viets U. S. by the have learned to evade the many SAM missiles the enemy fires at them by out-thinking the They allow the missiles to home in on them and even turn in behind Then they The missile does in The pilot pulls up just as missile is getting and it can't climb that sharply and swishes on It's tricky which requires nerves and clear but it can be done and is being AND it demonstrates again that there's no substitute for the human mind in air The automatic homing fired by pilots who get their target in range and aim the missile is the best weapon in the air today but it takes someone to fire and often to guide it after its either by a laser beam or a both aiming systems now being employed by our forces in |
