Название: Osprey Combat Aircraft 12 - RF-8 Crusader Units over Cuba and Vietnam
Автор: Peter Mersky
Издательство: Osprey Publishing
Год: 1999
Формат: PDF
Страниц: 98
Размер: 12,2 МБ
Язык: Английский

Although the Crusader was built first and foremost as a Navy interceptor, as has often been the tradition with US fighters, a photo-reconnaissance variant was also produced by Vought. The photo-bird's first operational test came in the autumn of 1962 when its overflights of Cuba alerted the world to the likely presence of medium-range ballistic missiles on the Caribbean island.