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A young Vietnamse girl must find her lost family after her city was destroyed by US's bombing campaign in 1972.

Colonel Robin Olds leads a flight of four F-4 Phantoms mimicking American bombers in the first ware of Operation Bolo, to lure North Vietnamese MiG-21s into a trap. An expert P-38 dog-fighter, Olds reintroduced dogfighting to the 8th fighter wing, This one operation obliterates half the North Korean MiG 21 force and discourages attacks on American bombers for quite some time.

The role and effectiveness of the RF-8 Crusader reconnaissance units in the Cuban Missile Crisis and the difficult decision to deploy them are explained.

Russian Nuclear Secrets of the Cold War.

From World War One to Vietnam this program traces the evolution of the tactics and weapons used in aerial combat with archival footage, computer simulations and explanations by the pilots themselves.

Following the decimation of Arab forces in the 1967 six day war Egypt courted the Soviet Union to rearm. The Soviet Union complied with a covert operation to bolster Egypt's air defenses and attack aircraft. The Soviets also reluctantly sent clandestine front line troops. Soviet pilots eventually engaged Israelii pilots directly resulting in losses on both sides.

During the cold war the United States and Soviet Union fielded faster and faster aircraft and the general expectation was that would continue especially since the Untied States was well on its way to developing hypersonic aircraft in the 1960s. But aircraft speed topped out with the F-15 Eagle and MiG-25 Foxbat. Here's why.

A detailed account of Operation Praying Manitis that ended the tanker wars in 1988.