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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.

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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.

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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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