(Paul A. Suhler) wrote:
Mike Marron wrote:

Whoa .. there's got to be more than four MiGs. There are EIGHT.
NO - O !

T - H - E - R - E A - R - E S - I -X - T - E - E - N ! "

At the Blackbird 40th Anniversary banquet, Mel Vojvodich told
a similar story about exiting China after a recon flight. A
gaggle of MiGs latched onto him. He commented that the only
good thing about having sixteen MiGs on your tail is that
only one can get in position to shoot at you at a time.

Interesting. Going after a Blackbird one would think they'd resort to
drastic measures (perhaps spread out line abreast and fire their
missiles all at once -- or doe's air-to-air missilery not work that
way?)

In any event, while pulling alert in the Duece at some far flung
Alaskan outpost (Galena, King Salmon, Nome etc.) in the early 60's,
my ol' man said he and his wingman (or vice versa) once locked onto
a gaggle of *nine* Soviet bogies (MiGs, IIRC).

They (understandably!) breathed a hefty sigh of relief when the bogies
turned around.

-Mike Marron
email: pegasus912 at tampabay dot rr dot com

Note: Just to clarify, the excerpt above was forwarded from the
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