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F-4 Phantom Destroys NVA Logistics Hub
Published 2 years ago
Footage that is crystal clear for the timeframe in which it was recorded shows an American F-4 Phantom dropping munitions on a North Vietnamese Army logistics hub loaded with supply trucks.
This footage, while historic in nature, is a pretty good look into the earliest stages of precision air strikes. The use of aerial platforms as instruments of war began in World War One. Through that war and the Second World War, most aerial bombing runs heavily used dumb munitions that were dropped with no guidance system whatsoever. By the time Vietnam came around however, even dumb munitions could be guided directly onto their target through the use of forward air controllers and sophisticated aiming instruments that by today's standards would seem archaice.
What you're looking at above was recorded on a camera mounted to the bomb bay doors of an F-4 Phantom. The F-4 Phantom is an American two-seat, twin-engine, all-weather, long-range supersonic jet interceptor and fighter-bomber. It was originally developed by McDonnell Aircraft for the United States Navy. It was first introduced in 1961, and to this day it is still in active in a limited service capacity.
