“The one in the photo has a gun in the chin. A late model F-4.”
that’s some kind of sensor in a small dome.
you are correct-
The plane is from VF111- the “sundowners”this is
our sister squadron- (I was in VF51-screaming eagles)
That was a first gen model FLIR- infrared- and it
worked like - sh**- most Never turned it on-
finally removed the blasted thing-
Cannot make out the VTAS sensors in the cocpit-
so I am guessing this is an F4B- I worked on this,
and was there for the F4N upgrades-
Oh as a side note- the Coral Sea was off Vietnam when
Saigon fell- both VF51 and VF11 flew aircap during
the evacuation- then ...on to the Mayaguez rescue