Aviations News , Decem,ber 2021 - Neptune Operations Over China

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'Black Bats' , Eagles and Wild Cherries by Dr. Kevin Wright covering mainly but not solely ROCAF/CIA Neptune Operations over and around mainland China and a good introduction to the wider field of overflights and infiltration of mainland China

 

If you are looking for something different to model you could well find your inspiration here with very much modified and later armed Neptunes (AIM-9 to fire at overshooting MiGs if they had not shot it down) followed very briefly by similarly configured Orions only being part of the story.

 

Got interested in the subject a few years back when I was building a 'Black Bats' P-3A and with some digging  discovered that all sorts of WWII and early post-war US-built aircraft had been involved in overflights either with CIA involvement or for purely Taiwanese purposes.     On the other hand the PLAAF installed MiG-17 radars in the nose of Tu-2 and restructured Tu-4 with dorsal mounted radar , guns with IR sights and extra crew as airborne controllers.     Both sides operating at often very low-level and with high losses.

 

So , if you are looking for something really different . . . . . .