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Dario Leone

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The AIM-9 Sidewinder that Failed to Detonate, Got Embedded in a MiG-17 and was Reverse-Engineered into the Soviet AA-2 Atoll

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By Dario Leone
| The Aviation Geek Club
The Sidewinder The development of the AIM-9 Sidewinder missile began in 1946 at the Naval Ordnance Test Station (NOTS), Inyokern, California, now the Naval Air Weapons Station China Lake, California as an in-house research project conceived by William Burdette McLean. McLean initially called his effort "Local Fuze Project 602" using laboratory funding, volunteer help and fuze funding to develop what it called a heat-homing rocket.
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USAF F-15 pilot recalls intercepting a pilotless Soviet MiG-23 in German Airspace: the Fourth of July Alpha Scramble

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By Dario Leone
| The Aviation Geek Club
Pilotless Soviet MiG-23 During the Cold War USAF kept units in Europe for air superiority and interception of Eastern Block intruders. When the MiG-25 Foxbat was introduced by the Eastern Block, the F-4 units were promptly replaced by the F-15A and later by the F-15C. These were stationed at Bitburg and Spangdahlem in Germany and Soesterberg in the Netherlands.
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Navy F-4 pilot tells why if Phantom II was built by Grumman instead of McDonnell Douglas would have been a better aircraft

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By Dario Leone
| The Aviation Geek Club
McDonnell Douglas F-4 Built as a high-altitude interceptor, the McDonnell Douglas F-4 Phantom II quickly demonstrated that it was a special aircraft, establishing over a dozen world speed, altitude, and time-to-climb records. Unique in that it carried no internal cannon, the F-4 relied on radar-guided missiles for offense and required a Radar Intercept Officer (RIO) to operate its advanced sensors and weapons systems.
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