An Air National Guard F-86D/L interceptor fires its 2.75-inch “Mighty Mouse” rockets.
An Air National Guard F-86D/L interceptor fires its 2.75-inch “Mighty Mouse” rockets. Jet fighters closing with jet bombers at over 1,000 miles per hour at night or in bad weather could not count on hitting their target with machine guns, even with the aid of radar and early computers. Before the advent of guided air-to-air missiles, many U.S. interceptor types were armed with unguided rockets fired in large salvos in an effort to increase the probability of a hit.
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