Niels Posted March 22, 2018 Share Posted March 22, 2018 No, as the EA-6A and the A-6B both flew in Vietnam and carried the missile Quote Link to post Share on other sites
SebastianP Posted March 22, 2018 Share Posted March 22, 2018 Re: lack of ARMs on Navy Phantoms Thanks for the info everyone, but *rats*, there goes one of my ideas for fixing up an airframe I found under the pile of debris on my desk... Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Rex Posted March 22, 2018 Share Posted March 22, 2018 Whoa, Sebastian, not so fast. "found under the pile of debris on my desk",,,,,,I can't be the only one to be thinking that it is a perfect candidate for a "plausible WIF" model. Do everything on the model as right as you can, and then white glue or superglue some launch rails and missiles on it. (easy to remove later if you want to) Then "hide it in plain sight" among your other Phantoms that you have dotted all the i's and crossed all the t's on. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
GW8345 Posted March 22, 2018 Share Posted March 22, 2018 Throw some test squadron markings on it and say it was for flight test/fit check. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
SCOUT712 Posted March 22, 2018 Share Posted March 22, 2018 14 hours ago, Niels said: No, as the EA-6A and the A-6B both flew in Vietnam and carried the missile Could you provide a source for the an EA-6A carrying a Standard in Vietnam? Thanks Michael Quote Link to post Share on other sites
SebastianP Posted March 22, 2018 Share Posted March 22, 2018 3 hours ago, Rex said: Whoa, Sebastian, not so fast. "found under the pile of debris on my desk",,,,,,I can't be the only one to be thinking that it is a perfect candidate for a "plausible WIF" model. Do everything on the model as right as you can, and then white glue or superglue some launch rails and missiles on it. (easy to remove later if you want to) Then "hide it in plain sight" among your other Phantoms that you have dotted all the i's and crossed all the t's on. You're on the right track, but It's not actually a Phantom I've found though, it's a Tomcat. I was hoping there would be a US Navy F-4 squadron that flew SEAD missions that had converted to Tomcats, so I could make a plausible what-if *Tomcat* SEAD bird with HARM under the wing shoulders and either Rockeye or JSOW on the bomb racks... as I have a complete Hasegawa 1/72 F-14B, with all the extra bits you need from the weapons sets to build a Bombcat (BOL rails, bomb racks, LANTIRN and plenty of the pylons for them)... but no Sparrow or Phoenix missiles to counter-balance the LANTIRN pod. Now I'll need to make a *series* of models showing the history of this fictional SEAD-specialized squadron. Not sure my skills are adequate for that. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Rex Posted March 22, 2018 Share Posted March 22, 2018 Maybe you could work backwards in history from a Hornet or Super Hornet squadron instead? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Finn Posted May 21, 2020 Author Share Posted May 21, 2020 At the 0:47 mark of this video a F-4D with 3 SUU-16 gun pods during a NATO fire power demo: https://www.criticalpast.com/video/65675031097_F-4-Phantom_USAF-in-Europe_United-States-Air-Force_takeoff_rockets_drop-bombs_burning-tower_explosions a still from that video: Jari Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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