“I hears freepers describe the Phantom as proof you can make a brick fly if you put powerful enough engines on it. The Muscle Car of the skies.”
Yet another FReeper said that the F-4 was proof positive that one could bet a coke machine to fly if one put powerful enough engines on it! ROFL
From my point of view, the F-4 was not very maneuverable in a dogfight. The only ‘advantage’ it had was brute-force speed but no gun.
Guns were retro-fitted on the F-4. Two many problems with the early model of the AIM-7, so plans to kill the bad guys at long range didn’t work out. The need for a gun became very apparent in Vietnam.
“The only ‘advantage’ it had was brute-force speed but no gun.”
Later models had a gun.
Brick. Coke machine. I heard it was a piano.
But the point is the same.
Dogfights were thought to be a thing of the past, hence no integral gun.
The E model had a gun. You could also hang a gun pod on any hard mount. Actually witnessed one with 5 gun pods hung on it. Rumor was you could not fire them all at once or you would stall.
The E model had a gun. You could also hang a gun pod on any hard mount. Actually witnessed one with 5 gun pods hung on it. Rumor was you could not fire them all at once or you would stall.