Subject: New Fighter Series--McDonnell F-4 Phantom (28 of 50)

From: [email-masked]
Date: 14 Jun 94 16:23:10 GMT

>From [email-masked]

The F-4T was a late 1970s proposal by McDonnell for a stripped F-4E 
optimized for the air superiority role.  All air-to-ground capability 
was to be eliminated, the armament consisting solely of the built-in 
M61A1 cannon, the four belly-mounted AIM-7 Sparrow missiles, and the 
four wing-mounted AIM-9 Sidewinder missiles.  A digital computer was 
to have handled the weapons system.  

By the late 1970s, the Phantom was clearly old technology, and no 
customers ever expressed any interest in the F-4T.  The project was 
abandoned before anything could be built.  

Sources:

  McDonnell F-4 Phantom: Spirit in the Skies.  Airtime Publishing, 1992.

Joe Baugher				AT&T Bell Laboratories
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