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Listened to an excellent podcast recently where one of the pilots involved gave listeners a step by step accounting of this engagement: Decided to consolidate all the known footage with clear audio as provided in the podcast. Audio timeline is compressed as I had to work with existing HUD footage. Summary Excerpt from “Bogey’s & Bandits“ - by Robert Gandt “Quicksand 400, two bandits on your nose at fifteen.“ A spike of adrenaline surged through Mongo. The controller had said bandits. Not bogeys. Bandits. Or had he? Mongo felt a stab of uncertainty. In the radio garble, could he have heard wrong? Mongo forced himself to switch his attention inside the cockpit—something he hated doing at this critical moment—just for a second. He switched his mission computer to air-to-air mode. Two sweeps later, there on his radar display, he could see one of the bandits. The radar was electronically identifying the target as a MiG-21 Fishbed figh
