Frank Ault

Frank Ault

Captain Frank Ault, USN (Ret) (1922 – August 25 2006) was a United States Naval officer. He is best remembered for the classified study he led in 1968 that led to the creation of the Navy Fighter Weapons School, or TOPGUN. Disturbed over less than expected performance of Navy fighters against the North Vietnamese MiGs in the first stage of the Vietnam Conflict 1965-1968 in which the exchange ratio was at best 2.5:1, Ault was directed by Adm. Tom Moorer, the Chief of Naval Operations (CNO) to conduct a sweeping review of aircraft, aircrew, organizational, training and missile performance and make recommendations for improvements. The official title of the report was Air-to-Air Missile System Capability Review, but it quickly became known simply as the Ault Report [http://www.history.navy.mil/a-record/ault/sections1-4.pdf] .

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*"Air-to-Air Missile System Capability Review" (1969) [http://www.history.navy.mil/a-record/ault/sections1-4.pdf] .
*Lon Nordeen (1985) "Air Warfare in the Missile Age", Smithsonian Press
*cite web | url = http://www.americanretirees.org/remember.htm | title = Frank Ault remembered | accessdate = 2007-03-23 | publisher = American Retirees Association


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