Hawker Hunter

[Richard Dastardly]

I'm not sure how popular the early jet fighters are being right now but I think they're fantastic fun. This one has seemingly slipped under the radar, however...

 

Hawker Hunter:

 

- Introduced 1954

- Just under 2,000 produced

- Used by at least 22 air forces

- Still in use as an aggressor by at least one contract operator.

 

- Used as an interceptor, ground attack & recon aircraft

- briefly held the world airspeed record

 

Served in:

 

- Suez conflict

- Brunei revolt

- Borneo conflict

- Radfan conflict

- Various India-Pakistan wars ( including facing F86s )

- Various conflicts involving Lebanon

- Rhodesian/Zimbabwean conflicts

- others

 

so while it missed Korea it's also got a long combat record. Was also a mainstay western Cold War aircraft. Lebanon only retired their last ones in 2014!

 

Would perhaps suggest some version of the FGA.9 - 4x30mm cannon, up to 2000lb bombload, various rockets, drop tanks, brake chute. Swiss ones carried AIM-9 & Mavericks. As far as I can tell most operators didn't use guided A2A missiles, which might be a small issue but given how first-gen fights end up, not *that* big an impediment.

 

There are a lot still flying but not in actual military service, so I would imagine finding the right info to model it would not be terribly hard.

 

[archer86]

There is a hawker hunter development from Foxtrot Oscar Simulation Designs

look at this page https://www.facebook.com/foxtrotoscardesigns/?ref=py_c

[DmitriKozlowsky]

I second that. Especially African Brushfire wars, theater. Belgians in Congo, DRC. Hunter was used by PMC pilots, flying out of South Africa. Forgotten dark corner of Cold War 1.0