Soviet commanders believed the MiG-29 and MiG-23 would crush any American multirole fighter. Then came the F/A-18 Hornet—a jet they dismissed as underpowered, overloaded, and unsuitable for real air combat. They couldn’t have been more wrong.
This cinematic 50-minute Cold War breakdown reveals how the F/A-18 rewrote every rule of air warfare: defeating Soviet doctrine not with speed, but with sensors… not with missiles, but with data. From Red Flag exercises to real-world intercepts, witness how the Hornet turned the skies into a digital battlefield—and how Soviet pilots never saw the kill coming.
Watch now to uncover:
– The ambush that humiliated MiG-29s in under 60 seconds
– How a “carrier compromise” fighter outwitted entire radar networks
– The moment Soviet doctrine collapsed—without a single shot fired
This is the true story of the Hornet that became a ghost… and hunted MiGs with silence.
Credit to : Cold War Stories