Posted: 5/21/2005 8:45:29 PM EDT
I am just watching BAT 21 on the History Channel. It looked like Tigers coming in for a ground strike. Were Tigers ever in the AF let alone in Vietnam?
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As far as I know, the F-20's were never used as anything other than training pilots to fly against MIG's. That said, they're probably a cheap fighter without much (if any) sensitive technology which would make them attractive to Hollywood. IIRC, the airstrike in Platoon was done by F-20's and the MIG's in Top Gun were also F-20's. But now that I think about it, I'm pretty sure that the bombing run depicted at the end of BAT-21 showed F-105's. |
So is Hackman, but that's another story. I always figured they were F-5s, the whole movie got a lot of shit wrong. Wasn't the guy actually rescued by a SEAL? |
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I just watched the Black Sheep movie on there too. It was a great movie but not very accurate, which begs the question: Why does Hollywood feel the need to bastardize an already amazing story to make a movie? Wouldn't it still be just as amazing without skewing the facts? |
