The final flight for the F-4 Phantom set for next week

American Thinker ^ | December 14, 2016 | John Smith

[doorgunner69]

Still have a scar on my lower back from standing up too fast under the wing landing gear door. Nice, sharp point to the door if you did not stay aware.........

[doorgunner69]

What can an F-4 do that one of the F-teens can’t?

Considering the time elapsed between their design time and service time, what sort of question is that?

[doorgunner69]

Got expanded into a 4 person EW job with a rotating radar scope on top.

Wow! That is one double-secret version!!!

[Robert A Cook PE]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AJibKdeqzGU

Nope they are quite visible. (USAF version shown on the E3. )

[Robert A Cook PE]

Continual improvements in airborne radars through 1956 led to the construction of AEW airplanes by several different countries and several different armed forces. The functions of command and control and sea & air surveillance were also added. The first carrier-based aircraft to perform these missions for the U.S. Navy and its allies was the Douglas AD Skyraider, which was replaced in US Navy service by the Grumman E-1 Tracer, which was a modified version of the S-2 Tracker twin-engine anti-submarine warfare aircraft, where the radar was carried in an aerofoil-shaped radome carried above the aircraft's fuselage.[3]
E-2A and E-2B Hawkeye
In 1956, the U.S. Navy developed a requirement for an airborne early warning aircraft where its data could be integrated into the Naval Tactical Data System aboard the Navy's ships, with a design from Grumman being selected to meet this requirement in March 1957.[4] Its design, initially designated W2F-1, but later redesignated the E-2A Hawkeye, was the first carrier plane that had been designed from its wheels up as an AEW and command and control airplane.

You're right - The E1 was a stretched S-2 with a rotating radar dish inside a fixed exterior dome, not the A-6 as I incorrectly implied above. The E2 was designed from the flight deck up as a AEW plane with 5 onboard. And a rotating radar dish above the fusalage.

[Paladin2]

B-52s, A-10s, C-130s , SR71s seem to have capability combinations that have not been bettered by subsequently designed planes. I’m not aware of a mission where the F4 has not been bettered. Do you know of one?