ACIG Database
Portfolio: USN "Aggressors"
By ACIG Team
Nov 20, 2003, 08:05

TA-4 on a training hop with an F-14A of the VF-101

A nice study of an A-4F of the VF-145

Assortment of A-4Fs and TA-4s of the VF-126.

An F-14 turns into an TA-4 like a bird of prey, possibly for a deflection shot - wings fully extended, obviously at slow speed and the pilot searching for the best turn performance...

...perhaps shot milliseconds later: if, then the Skyhawk turned around within a millisecond, and the Tomcat blasted by (wings fully swept)...

An A-4F of the VF-126 in clinch with an F-14A of the US PACFL

F-14A passes by at a pretty high speed, with the A-4 already in a nose-high turn (this kind of turns has the tightest radious)...

This time the opponent is an F-4S....

The same AT-4 ruinning the whole day of a USN Phantom of VF-201, and sitting deep at its six, regardless how tight the Phantom pilot tries to turn his loop...

A gaggle of VC-8's Skyhawks seen sometimes in the 1990s....(via Arthur Hubers)

...and an AT-4 of the same unit, now again in "proper" aggressor markings. (via Arthur Hubers)

Simulating Azarakhsh? USN F-5E in "IRIAF-markings", as seen during the Exercise "Agile Eagle", held in 2002.