The Perfect Dogfight Weapon the US Ever Built

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For a brief, harrowing moment during the Korean War, MiG Alley was considered the most lethal place on earth. This narrow strip of airspace where the Yalu River meets the Yellow Sea in northwest North Korea became the arena for the most brutal dogfights since World War 2. Here, American and Soviet pilots, engaged in the first jet-to-jet encounters in history, were pushed to their absolute limits daily.
These were not just any pilots. Battle-hardened soviet aces from World War 2, posing as Korean or Chinese pilots, joined the fray, transforming the skies into a chaotic and volatile battlefield. In this high-stakes arena, the influential US F-86 Sabres clashed fiercely with the powerful MiG-15s.
One of the American rising stars who dared enter this treacherous airspace was Cecil G. Foster, a World War 2 veteran with the pinnacle of his career yet to come. On September 26, 1952, Foster, his wingman, and their flight leader, Captain Bart, spotted two MiGs flying below them. Instantly, the American pilots dropped their tanks and dove aggressively.
Foster locked onto the MiG flight leader, who was making a hard left turn. The jets entered a scissors maneuver, slicing across each other’s paths.
Foster squeezed the trigger for a one-second burst from the Sabre’s six .50 caliber machine guns. His tracer bullets seemed to fly in slow motion, narrowly missing the lead warplane but striking the wingman behind it. Then, in a shocking turn of events, the lead MiG exploded violently into a bright and black ball of fire. Foster, incredulous, yelled over the radio: (QUOTE) “The MiG exploded!”
He had no idea how it happened.
The MiG wingman’s plane was burning. Foster, intoxicated by adrenaline, climbed almost vertically to finish it off. He fired, only to realize the MiG was spiraling out of control and on a direct collision course with him. It was too late. Foster had miraculously downed two MiGs with one burst and was now about to meet his end.
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