So at a rough guess, you don't believe me? Well thats your choice, but when
you consider the air mass displacement the buc had at low level, anybody
trying to get in behind it was going to end up in trouble, as I previously
mentioned. This was in the days before a true look down shoot down missile
existed, and anything that did try to lock on, usually ended up (or would
have if they were real missiles - Red Flag) getting lost in ground return -
the point I was making.

"Alan Minyard" wrote in message
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Would this be the same Buc that carried a full load at 250ft (or below)
that
the F16s and F15s were BANNED (yes you did read that right) from fighting
in
the weeds due to the severe performance advantage enjoyed by the Buc. Not
sure if its true, but I've heard that at least one f16(?) tried to fight
in
the weeds, and ended up becoming a weed?

What utter Bullsh**. The Buc would not last 5 minutes in the same sky
with an F -15 or an F-16. It was, repeat was, a fine a/c thirty years
ago, now it is a museum piece.

Al Minyard