Thunderchief at War – The F-105’s down-and-dirty war in Vietnam

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PICTURE, IF YOU WILL, a Mach-2-capable, all-weather fighter-bomber that flies 1,000 feet above the ground on autopilot, while a Doppler navigation system steers it to a target 300 to 500 nautical miles distant. Then, at 550 knots, it runs in toward the target on radar. At the proper time, using inputs from the integrated air data computer and toss bomb computer (TBC), the ship's autopilot pulls it into a flawless 4G half-loop, whereupon the TBC...

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