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Nguyễn Nhật Chiêu

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of MiG-21s scrambled from the 921st Fighter Regiment on CAP duty over Noi Bai against incoming USAF F-105D Thunderchiefs... repeated salvos of rockets from Tran Ngoc Siu's MiG-21 destroyed Capt. Tomes' F-105D, however Nguyen Ngat Chieu was unable to lock his R-3S AAMs against another F-105D making energetic evasive manuevers... this was basically the first aerial victory by a MiG-21 over piloted American aircraft.
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Toperczer, 2015, pp. 52. The standard pair of MiG-21s was more successful in combat at the time when fitted with a mix of infra-red guided R-3S AAMs carried by the flight leader and UB-16-57 rocket pods with unguided S-5M air-to-air missiles carried by the wingman... on 7 July 1966, a dissimilar pair
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for me personally, I preferred the MiG-21 because it was superior in all aspects of climb, speed and armament. The Atoll missile was very accurate and I scored four kills with the Atoll... in general combat conditions I was always confident of a kill over an
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Contrary to popular accounts in U.S. text, Nguyễn Nhật Chiêu preferred flying the MiG-21 into combat over the MiG-17, stating that: "
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7 October 1967, a USAF F-105F Wild Weasel (pilot Howard, RWO Shamblee, both rescued);
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The following kills are officially acknowledged and credited to him by the VPAF:
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This biographical article about the military of Vietnam is a
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23 August 1967, a USAF F-4D (pilot Tyler, POW, RWO Sittner,
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29 October 1967, an F-4 Phantom (not confirmed by the US).
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North Vietnamese military personnel of the Vietnam War
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Index

Nam Sách District
Hải Dương Province
Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-21
Vietnamese People's Air Force
Vietnam War
fighter aces
F-4 Phantom
F-4 Phantom II
MiG-17
USAF
F-105D Thunderchief
POW
credited to Chieu's wingman Tran Ngoc Siu
USN
F-8 Crusader
KIA
List of Vietnam War flying aces
Weapons of the Vietnam War
ISBN
978-1-85780-257-3
Vietnamese Air-to-Air Victories, Part 1
Vietnamese Air-to-Air Victories, Part 2
US Losses in the Vietnam War
Archived
Wayback Machine
ISBN
978-0-7643-4895-2
Flag of Vietnam
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stub

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