Dogfights - Season 2 (2007)

An pair of American-piloted, propeller-driven Skyraider dive bombers manage to elude a Mig 17 jet fighter thanks to its tight turning radius then miraculously, scores the first gun kill of Vietnam by shooting down the Mig. Originally fielded without a gun the first gun equipped F-4 Phantoms quickly score gun kills.

In the air battles over the Middle East, Arab and Israeli aircraft are closely matched making dogfight kills very tough. This program recounts the experiences of two of Israel's top dogfighters.

This program provide detailed reenactments of three of the epic dogfights of world war one.

The missions of Nazi Germany's Sonderkommando aerial ramming unit, the Luftwaffe's last ditch defense tactic against Allied bombers.

Notable low altitude dogfights.

Famous nighttime dogfights.

On May 10, 1972 the United States escalates the air war in Vietnam bombing strategic targets in the north. On this day American pilots shot down a one day record of eleven MiGs trying to intercept the bombers.

World War II battles of the noted American land based fighter class.

A generational leap in technology and strategy is put to the ultimate test over enemy airspace in Iraq. The air combat of the future begins with America's first large scale air offensive since the Vietnam War.

The story and battles of a group of African American pilots who overcame racist opposition on their own side to become some of the finest fighter pilots of World War II.

At the end of the Vietnam war the USS Midway's pilots and airmen engaged in some of the most thrilling and intense air combat.

The first supersonic gun kill and two other high speed dogfights of earlier eras are described.

Operation Bodenplatte was a daring plan to destroy American forward air bases all over Holland, Belgium, and the Netherlands during World War ll.

This program explains the operation of the messerschmitt-me-163-komet, Kaiten suicide torpedo and Project Anvil's radio controlled bomber. All were military failures but effective terror weapons and research projects.

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