The North Vietnamese Ground Control Intercept crew at Phuc Yen airbase huddles around their radar to watch the familiar electronic signatures gradually dancing across their screen. Everything matches the pattern they’ve seen dozens of times before: the jamming signals, the formation spacing, the flight path. Right on schedule, it’s another predictable bombing run by slow and cumbersome American F-105 Thunderchiefs on their way to Hanoi - sitting ducks for North Vietnam’s lethal MiG-21 interceptors.
Ground Control quickly vectors Phuc Yen’s MiGs toward the incoming formation, confidently preparing to add to their mounting tally of victories. But as the sleek Soviet-built aircraft burst through the clouds into attack position, their pilots are suddenly faced with an unpleasant surprise. These are no bombers - these are F-4 Phantoms, the most lethal fighters in the US Air Force. The Americans have laid a clever trap, and the MiGs fell right into it…
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