Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
Mock-up of a XM-2 people sniffer on a UH-1 Iroquois helicopter. People sniffer was the field name for a series of U.S. Army issued "personnel detectors" used during the Vietnam War. The purpose was to detect enemy soldiers in hidden positions, which were often employed in the jungle combat conditions of Vietnam.
The dangers of treating military simulation as gospel are illustrated in an anecdote circulated at the end of the Vietnam War, which was intensively gamed between 1964 and 1969 (with even President Lyndon Johnson being photographed standing over a wargaming sand table at the time of Khe Sanh) in a series of simulations codenamed Sigma. [44]
Steve arrived in Vietnam on July 28, 1967, and was assigned to C-Troop, 3 rd Squadron, 5 th Calvary, 9 th Infantry Division.. As track commander of the 16-track (1 st platoon, #6 armored vehicle ...
Jane's USAF: United States Air Force is a combat flight simulation video game developed by Israeli studio Pixel Multimedia and released in 1999 as part of Jane's Combat Simulations series. The game is set from the late 1960s to the early 2000s and it is a jet aircraft survey simulation featuring satellite imagery for terrain which allowed quite ...
For premium support please call: 800-290-4726 more ways to reach us
The Vietnam War was a challenging time in U.S. history, and for many, the scars it left still feel fresh. While fighting overseas, the soldiers didn't just have to worry about the mortal threat of ...
Wings over Vietnam is a PC combat flight simulation game set during the Vietnam War over South East Asia and covers the time period between 1964 and 1973.. The game includes a wide variety of jets and weapons which can be employed in various mission types such as MIG-CAP (MiG combat air patrol), strike, air support, Iron Hand, and reconnaissance.
The Sigma I-64 war game, one of the Sigma war games, was played from 6 to 9 April 1964.Its purpose was to test scenarios of escalation of warfare in Vietnam.After rigorous research into information needed to form a scenario, a simulation took place, with knowledgeable officials playing out the roles of actual government decision makers.