I used to doodle out whole alpha-strikes... I wonder if that would get me the chair? Or maybe a war crimes trial? What a joke.
WOW!!! A nascent Air Intelligence Officer .... who could know???I used to doodle out whole alpha-strikes... ...
I used to doodle out whole alpha-strikes...
That's great --- where in the hell did you find that ????!!!Ya mean like this?
What's TARCAP? What's flak suppressors?
That's great --- where in the hell did you find that ????!!!
"Cept I don't see any flak suppressors ...... .... Ironhand doesn't count!!!
It wasn't as bad as it looks – but it was no walk in the park either.That looks like it had to be hell to get airborne, formed up, and inbound off one boat.
What your air plan depicts as F-4 STRIKE/TARCAP ... mebbe even some of the upfront MIGCAP (I've never seen that many F-4's up at one time in the history of Naval Aviation ) usually became our flak suppressors w/Rockeye/CBU -- accelerating ahead of the strike group @ a minute prior to roll-in .... ... then resuming their TARCAP roles after flak suppression pull-off. Seems like every Air Wing had their own ideas on what worked and what didn't .........Alpha Strikes were exceedingly well planned, exceedingly well briefed, but exceedingly hard to pull off without ever a hitch.....
What your air plan depicts as F-4 STRIKE/TARCAP ... mebbe even some of the upfront MIGCAP (I've never seen that many F-4's up at one time in the history of Naval Aviation ) usually became our flak suppressors w/Rockeye/CBU -- accelerating ahead of the strike group @ a minute prior to roll-in .... ... then resuming their TARCAP roles after flak suppression pull-off. Seems like every Air Wing had their own ideas on what worked and what didn't ....
A good overall picture -- talks a little about cyclic ops vs Alpha strikes -- of mid-late '60's Vietnam Ops is provided by none other than ADM James L. Holloway III, USN (Ret.) on the Naval Historical Center website:
[FONT=Times New Roman,Georgia,Times]TACTICAL COMMAND AND CONTROL OF CARRIER OPERATIONS[/FONT]