Bảo tàng Phòng không - Không quân
Military museum of anti-aircraft artillery, MiGs, missiles and radar across sprawling indoor and outdoor grounds.
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This guide to the Vietnam People's Air Force Museum in Hanoi opens with a disagreement: the U.S. Air Force says it never lost a single B-52 to a fighter plane, and the MiG-21 parked outside the museum belongs to the man who disputes that. It follows pilot Pham Tuan through the night of December 27, 1972, deep into the bombing campaign Vietnamese call Dien Bien Phu in the Air, as ground radar called out a closing distance and Tuan pushed his jet to supersonic speed. Start at the jet parked out front before walking in toward the cockpit exhibits.
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