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Yarnhub Channel - When F-16s ate Hawks for breakfast

Started by Weaver, January 28, 2025, 11:46:31 PM

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Weaver

This looks like a good channel: quality animations of historic tactical battles, sea air and land.

This one's about the shootdown of five out of six J-21 Jastreb (Hawk) attack aircraft by NATO F-16s during the Yugoslavian civil war.

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perttime

Oh. That Hawk...
I'm told that an F-16 pilot can be quite upset when an experienced BAE Hawk pilot "shoots him down" in a dogfight excercise.

Old Wombat

Quote from: perttime on January 29, 2025, 12:38:27 AMOh. That Hawk...
I'm told that an F-16 pilot can be quite upset when an experienced BAE Hawk pilot "shoots him down" in a dogfight excercise.

They can become very upset when an A-4 pilot goes guns-on long enough for a kill during an exercise (Kangaroo '83? I think?), too.
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Weaver

Quote from: perttime on January 29, 2025, 12:38:27 AMOh. That Hawk...
I'm told that an F-16 pilot can be quite upset when an experienced BAE Hawk pilot "shoots him down" in a dogfight excercise.

There's some videos on the Aircrew Interview channel in which an American pilot who was working with the Malaysian Air Force had some tales to tell about fighting a Hawk 200.
"Things need not have happened to be true. Tales and dreams are the shadow-truths that will endure when mere facts are dust and ashes, and forgot."
 - Sandman: A Midsummer Night's Dream, by Neil Gaiman

"I dunno, I'm making this up as I go."
 - Indiana Jones