LanceCriminal86 Posted August 26, 2022 Posted August 26, 2022 6 hours ago, Czechnology said: Gentle reminder this is a thread about the F-4 family, not the F-14 and heatblur's progress on it. Also upon review, both from consuming a LOT of Vietnam air war audiobooks, and now reading "USAF Phantoms: Tactics, Training, and Weapons" I think I'd most like a D model. Navy model is also very cool, and I stand that my old suggestion is probably the next step for the Phantom family, but I've very much come to like the thought of a D model. I think the D has a lot of extra systems to model though, some of which might be a challenge to find and document. I've been doing research to try and look at airframe differences and such on the E and noted that the APS-107 RHAW used in the D was also used in the E early on but was also discontinued around 1968, and replaced with APR-36/37. First Es didn't have the 107 either. I think there was also some other radar homing or detection gear, something like ARN-101 along the spine of the jet. It sounded like the Ds had a lot of electronic systems, and it may be similar to the challenge of doing the G. Heatblur Rivet Counting Squad™ VF-11 and VF-31 1988 [WIP] VF-201 & VF-202 [WIP]
SgtPappy Posted August 26, 2022 Posted August 26, 2022 34 minutes ago, LanceCriminal86 said: I think the D has a lot of extra systems to model though, some of which might be a challenge to find and document. I've been doing research to try and look at airframe differences and such on the E and noted that the APS-107 RHAW used in the D was also used in the E early on but was also discontinued around 1968, and replaced with APR-36/37. First Es didn't have the 107 either. I think there was also some other radar homing or detection gear, something like ARN-101 along the spine of the jet. It sounded like the Ds had a lot of electronic systems, and it may be similar to the challenge of doing the G. The good thing about the D model is that there were so many subvariants just like many other F-4's. Some versions had no chin pod, many did not have the ARN-101, etc. It might be possible to model a version that has all its information available.
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