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Frankly based on how the usaf actually fought the war the the f8U-3 would have been better the the f-4. But thats really missing the forest for the trees, the usaf gust didn't fight well in vetnam because of bad decision making. Honestly the mig-21 is a interceptor its not actually very good a dog fighter (it can only out turn the f-4 on the first turn and after that it loses a lot of energy do to the delta) and if you look at the data it backs that up, the vast majority of mig kills were ambushes, hiting hevaly leaden f-4 and f-105 and then running, when they tried actually dogfighting (aka trying actually contest usaf air superiority) they lost bad every time. Honestly the air war should really be called air garila war, because that more adicitly describes what happened over north vetnam.[URL unfurl="true"]https://www.historynet.com/great-kill-ratio-debate/#:~:text=The%20Air%20Force%20had%20a,ratio%20for%20the%20entire%20war.[/URL]Honestly the better answer wasn't really a different plane it was a different way to fight the actual war (isn't that gust the moral of the vitamin war in a nutshell) things like awaks coverage over north vetnam so enemy fighters couldn't launch sneak attacks, better iffs so that the roe could be loosened allowing the sparrow to work like it was made to, things like that (and when they were introduced during the last three years of the war the ratio jumped up to something higher then in korea)But if all you want to do is change the plane then the F8U-3 and the f11-1f are the planes that better fit how the war was actually fought by the us.
Frankly based on how the usaf actually fought the war the the f8U-3 would have been better the the f-4. But thats really missing the forest for the trees, the usaf gust didn't fight well in vetnam because of bad decision making. Honestly the mig-21 is a interceptor its not actually very good a dog fighter (it can only out turn the f-4 on the first turn and after that it loses a lot of energy do to the delta) and if you look at the data it backs that up, the vast majority of mig kills were ambushes, hiting hevaly leaden f-4 and f-105 and then running, when they tried actually dogfighting (aka trying actually contest usaf air superiority) they lost bad every time. Honestly the air war should really be called air garila war, because that more adicitly describes what happened over north vetnam.
[URL unfurl="true"]https://www.historynet.com/great-kill-ratio-debate/#:~:text=The%20Air%20Force%20had%20a,ratio%20for%20the%20entire%20war.[/URL]
Honestly the better answer wasn't really a different plane it was a different way to fight the actual war (isn't that gust the moral of the vitamin war in a nutshell) things like awaks coverage over north vetnam so enemy fighters couldn't launch sneak attacks, better iffs so that the roe could be loosened allowing the sparrow to work like it was made to, things like that (and when they were introduced during the last three years of the war the ratio jumped up to something higher then in korea)
But if all you want to do is change the plane then the F8U-3 and the f11-1f are the planes that better fit how the war was actually fought by the us.
