F-8 versus F-100

Jack Doub wrote:

I believe the F-8 had the best air-to-air gun kill ratio in the SEA
war?

Not sure what this means, exactly. I'm sure it didn't have the best
guns-to-missiles kill ratio, since there were several aircraft that got
nothing but gun kills (having no AAMs). Take the F-105, for example.

The actual record for the "Last of the Gunfighters" is somewhat different
from the legend. If Barrett Tillman's _MiG Master_ is correct, only 4 of
the type's 19 MiG kills involved guns, and 3 of those were split credits
with Sidewinder or, in one case, Zuni rockets. Another 14 kills were
Sidewinder-only affairs, and one was preemptive kill (pilot bailed when he
found he was under attack).

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