(Peter Stickney) wrote in message ...
In article ,
Andrew Chaplin writes:
Peter Stickney wrote:

[The] F-4's radar and FCS couldn't, in
its stock form, compute the launch and intercept points for the Genie,
or perform the electrical octoflugerons needed to set the Genie's
timers.
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That was the problem with the F104A launching an AIR2A Genie. It's
ASG14T1 radar (highly resembling an AI10 AI set from WW2) didn't even
have a computer. It didn't angle track, either - the pilot did that.
It did have range track and an overtake indicating needle but there
was no precision output reading in range. Some more boxes would have
been needed to get a Genie to go off at the right spot; TLAR wouldn't
have hacked it.
BTW the AIM26A Fat Falcon did have a prox fuze; unfortunately it was
determined that chaff would most likely have set it off so we had to
do odd offset attacks to keep the missile out of the chaff trail. Like
the Genie-launchers, our bellies would have been facing the FF when it
went off. Best use I'd heard for the Genie rocket motors was the idea
to screw a CBU24 to its front and use it for flak supression. Would
have beat a ballistic drop all hollow - nice stand-off weapon!
Walt BJ ex-Deuce driver
Walt BJ