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"NATO Air Meet 2005": the Alca-Grifo couple beat the Fighting Falcon

Oslo, Norway - The Czech L-159 trainer endowed with a Galileo Avionica Grifo radar proved winner against a F-16 during a simulated dogfight

The "NATO Air Meet 2005" exercise (Norway, September 3-15) involved also Czech Air Force’s pilots for missions together with or against several types of combat aircraft such as the Tornado, the F-4 Phantom II, the F-16 Fighting Falcon, the F/A-18 Hornet and the Mirage F-1.Among the operations also aerial dogfights were included among various kinds of airplanes and one of this deserves to be mentioned. A...

AVIONEWS - World Aeronautical Press Agency - 127155
Rome, Italy, 09/19/2005 16:16
AVIONEWS - World Aeronautical Press Agency

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