So They Can Fight Like They Train: Training Tactical Combat Aircrews (Military)

By Donald L. Johnson

Coming out of Vietnam, the US Navy was dissatisfied with kill ratios Navy combat pilots experienced against enemy fighters. This prompted the "Ault Report" documenting those deficiencies, and a subsequent request for industry to come up with a system that would widen the gap in kill ratios in favor of American warfighters. This new system, coupled with a new training regime would become the famed "Top Gun" program (maybe you've seen the movie Top Gun).A group of engineers at Cubic Corporation had the audacity to believe that just because they could track a 'fast-moving' mountain top, they could track fast and highly maneuvering jet aircraft. You see, in those days in the 1960s into the 1970s, Cubic produced highly accurate survey equipment based on the measurement of radio waves returned between interrogator/receiver sets. With that technology as its base, Cubic won the contract, and has dominated training range development ever since.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1983310549
• ISBN13: 9781983310546
• Release Date: June 2018
• Publisher: Independently published
• Length: 36 Pages
• Weight: 0.23 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.0" x 0.1" x 6.0"