I know baseline F-4E’s (some F-4D’s perhaps?) could carry the AGM-45 Shrike, and the later F-4G carried both the AGM-78 Standard and the AGM-88 HARM. What about now? Has the Phantom completely rid itself of SEAD capabilities nowadays?

AN/APG-65 is the radar used by Kurnass 2000 and F/A-18A, so it would be compatible. So would be the AN/APG-66 of Peace Icarus, coincidentily the same used on F-16A. Don’t know if the Norden AN/APG-76 synthetic aperture radar from the test program was compatible.

Hawx will be happy to see the last one mentioned was a SAR. 🙂

Other than the HUD, HMS, and AIM-9X my list carried all the rest. Well, except for the “Norden Senthetic Apeture radar” which is what the E-8 JSTARS carried. Doesn’t really fit on the F-4. 🙂

I was only going for the equipment that was integrated experimentally and operationally on the F-4. The AIM-9X and IRIS-T would pretty much overlap in capability, would they not? Never was a HMS for the IRIS-T capability planned for Peace Icarus that I can find; apparently it is unnecessary to use IRIS-T. In order to get the AMRAAM and IRIS-T support you had to drop support for the AIM-7 as it doesn’t designate targets like the radars it replaced. I did take the liberty of adding the KB-35 Strike Recording Camera which is a rudimentary standard in quite a few of its predecessors. I believe the F-4’s used still frame imagery without a livefeed or recording capability like what is available today.

Cumulatively speaking we’re at:

**** cockpit caveats ****
one-piece wrap-around windscreen
probe aerial refueling
color multi function cockpit screens
Have Quick V/UHF and long range HF radios

**** mechanicals ****
2x Pratt & Whitney PW1120 (two engines were on one ‘Kurnass 2000’ demonstrator in 1987) = TF30 equivalent thrust
F-4S wings (F-4J’s big wing with extra control surfaces)
Twin-stick controls
PACT fly-by-wire (YF-4E demonstrator)
canard nose (YF-4E demonstrator)
telescoping front undercarriage leg (British FG.1)

**** Sensors/ECM ****
Norden AN/APG-76 synthetic aperture radar
KS-127 LOROP (RF-4C long-range oblique photography)
AN/APR-47 EW system (replaces internal cannon)
DIAS self protection system (HAF)
LN100GT GPS/INS navigation system (Turkey)
KB-35 Strike Recording Camera
Litening II targeting pod (HAF)

**** external fuel ****
one fuselage centerline bomb rack and four pylon bomb racks
1x 2,345L centerline external fuel tank
1x 4,230L conformal fuel tank under the fuselage (instead of 2,345L centerline tank)
2x 1,420L underwing external fuel tank(s)
2x 4,800L conformal tanks on the sides of the fuselage spine (F-4X)

**** Weapons ****
4x AIM-120B AMRAAM (German F-4F ICE)
4x AIM-9M (HAF), Python-3 (IAF), or IRIS-T (german test F-4)
Matra rocket pods with 18 × SNEB 68 mm rockets each
AFDS gliding submunition dispensing weapon (Autonomous Flight Dispenser System; HAF)
AGM-62 Walleye
AGM-65 Maverick
AGM-88 HARM
AGM-142 Popeye/Have Nap
SUU-16/A external pod (ram air-powered M61A1 20 mm cannon; 1,200 rounds)
SUU-23/A external pod (self-powered M61A1 20 mm cannon; 1,200 rounds)
Mk82 500lb bomb
Mk84 1000lb bomb
GBU-12 Paveway II 500lb bomb
CBU-87 1000lb cluster bomb
GBU-10 Paveway II unpowered 2000lb bomb
GBU-15 unpowered 2000lb glide bomb
Mitsubishi ASM-1 antiship missile

With a chin-mounted radar.

There used to be a lot of jato takeoffs from carriers. They were equally as smokey.

It sounds like N-156NN was a wider wing and podded engine housings, making it kind of like a miniature YF-17/MiG-29 crossbreed. The F-5 really wasn’t the same airframe.

Beautiful reply, HAWX.