colmurph, the NVA had aircraft up north, patroling Hanoi, and what they called the Iron Triangle. The Chinese sent planes and pilots to train the north vietnamese. and they were pretty good. becasue the planes were Migs, Mig-17, Mig-19, and they rarely carried A-A missles, so they relied on their guns, giving some of our pilots flashbacks of Korea and some of WW2. because in korea the kill ratio was 7-1. meaning for every plane they shot down of ours we shot down 7. in Nam it dropped to 3-1, becasue pilots relied to much on missiles and lost their true dogfighting skills. so the North were able to actually shoot down some of our planes with a not to inferior air force, that consisited of mostly Korean War planes.
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