Four Sea Furies used sustained turns and a scissors manoeuvre after MiG-15s attacked from the sun, creating firing opportunities across both sections of the flight. The surviving evidence confirms one jet destroyed but does not reliably identify which pilot fired the fatal rounds. Royal Navy policy assigned an indivisible kill to the flight leader when several pilots engaged and the decisive shot could not be established. Later claims based on ammunition expenditure alone cannot prove who caused the fatal damage, making a collective flight victory the most cautious interpretation.
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Reconstructing the Sea Fury flight's MiG-15 victory
The famous MiG-15 victory is best understood as a coordinated flight action, even though Royal Navy rules credited the kill to flight leader Peter Carmichael.