After the Vietnam war air-to-air combat victories or kills aren't as common. ... United States Air Force F-16s used AIM-9 heat-seeking missiles and AIM-120 radar-guided missiles in the engagement.

To draw some post-Vietnam examples, even in America’s biggest airpower triumphs—from the 1991 Persian Gulf War, known as Desert Storm, to Operation Allied Force (the 1999 Kosovo campaign) and ...

LITTLE ROCK (KATV) — Richard Yada turned 18, enrolled at the University of Arkansas and decided to enlist in the United States Air Force. Yada enrolled in the ROTC program and signed up to serve ...

Over the course of the war, less than 200 Air Force officers were hand-picked to fly unmarked and armed Cessna O-1 Bird Dogs, the faster U-17, and the heavy-hitting “Cadillac,” the T-28, armed ...

Before the Vietnam War, the United States had placed a huge emphasis on safety during training; so much so that it all but forbade the realistic training pilots needed to win dogfights over Vietnam.

Tinker Air Force Base was receiving GAM-77 supersonic missiles, nicknamed Hound Dogs, that would need to be modified.

On this day in history, 1973, the United States, South Vietnam, the Viet Cong, and North Vietnam signed the Paris Peace Accords, which formally brought an end to the Vietnam War.