Back In My Time Zone

[Cane Pole]

This place doesn't exist anymore in this form. Great place to work if you liked blowing things up. I worked building 35 where we messed with target drones and test fired missiles of all types.

https://books.google.com/books?id=z7...20mugu&f=false

Picture of my favorite cruise missile (Regulus II) You can see it just being launched in the link above. I worked on the guidance system which was Terrain follow, Terrain Avoidance. I worked on a lots of different missiles. Mostly with telemetry.

Awesome!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[skeetbum]

Cool stuff Tom. Way above my pay grade.

[Lowellhturner]

Was recently fascinated to find out in Viet Nam there was a "Firebee" drone that was credited with 3 different MiG `kills`...believe 1 was chasing `Tomcat III` and was lured in front of a waiting and armed US fighter, 1 flew into terrain while chasing `Tomcat III` thru mountainous terrain and the last was simply run out of fuel in an series of turning `dog fight` tactics that the MiG pilot repeatedly had to break off from and then turn back into trying to get a clear shot with. He became so completely asorbed trying to shoot down the drone he neglected his fuel state until he flamed out and was forced to eject...a `sign` of things to come.

[Cane Pole]

Don't know about that LT, but we had some KD2 drones at Bien Hoa. They were used for recon, mostly to find SAMs. Some had UHF/VHF tv and some had high speed photo cameras. The KDs had no landing gear, so were retrieved by parachute from a designated rice field crash sight.
Also, the KDs recon drones were flown from carriers into mainland China. Not many folks know this.

I worked on the KDs at Point Mugu.

[Cane Pole]

Was recently fascinated to find out in Viet Nam there was a "Firebee" drone that was credited with 3 different MiG `kills`...believe 1 was chasing `Tomcat III` and was lured in front of a waiting and armed US fighter, 1 flew into terrain while chasing `Tomcat III` thru mountainous terrain and the last was simply run out of fuel in an series of turning `dog fight` tactics that the MiG pilot repeatedly had to break off from and then turn back into trying to get a clear shot with. He became so completely asorbed trying to shoot down the drone he neglected his fuel state until he flamed out and was forced to eject...a `sign` of things to come.

AQM34. It was a RPV (KD) in Bien Hoa.

[Lowellhturner]

Look up ACIG.com/ SE Asia/ RPVs...there is a really good CLOSE UP of a MiG-21 `Fishbed that was fated to shortly be bouncing pieces of flaming wreckage in mountainous terrain...