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Gun Pods on Navy F-4s: Why not?
As the air war over NVN heated up in 1966-67, why didn't the Navy adopt the SUU-23 gun pod
on its Phantoms? The AF's 366th TFW certainly did, and got several MiG kills as a result of the pods' usage. What was the reason? NAVAIR not approve or what? Navy F-4 crews were screaming for a gun all through the war, but had to wait until the F-14 arrived with its internal Vulcan. It's been said in several books that if VF-96's Phantoms had guns on 10 May 72, there would've been several more MiG kills that day. Any ex-F-4 drivers able to clear this up? ----== Posted via Newsfeeds.Com - Unlimited-Unrestricted-Secure Usenet News==---- http://www.newsfeeds.com The #1 Newsgroup Service in the World! 120,000+ Newsgroups ----= East and West-Coast Server Farms - Total Privacy via Encryption =---- |
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Gun Pods on Navy F-4s: Why not?
"Matt Wiser" wrote in message ... As the air war over NVN heated up in 1966-67, why didn't the Navy adopt the SUU-23 gun pod on its Phantoms? The AF's 366th TFW certainly did, and got several MiG kills as a result of the pods' usage. What was the reason? NAVAIR not approve or what? Navy F-4 crews were screaming for a gun all through the war, but had to wait until the F-14 arrived with its internal Vulcan. It's been said in several books that if VF-96's Phantoms had guns on 10 May 72, there would've been several more MiG kills that day. Any ex-F-4 drivers able to clear this up? Wasn't this posted before? The gun pod was notoriously unreliable in the shipboard environment. The aircraft lacked a lead-computing gunsight. If the F-4J had an internal gun and an appropriate sight, and if the aviators trained for it, the additional kills might have occurred. USMC shore based F-4's did carry the pod for CAS, etc. R / John |
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Gun Pods on Navy F-4s: Why not?
Matt Wiser wrote:
As the air war over NVN heated up in 1966-67, why didn't the Navy adopt the SUU-23 gun pod on its Phantoms? The AF's 366th TFW certainly did, and got several MiG kills as a result of the pods' usage. What was the reason? NAVAIR not approve or what? Navy F-4 crews were screaming for a gun all through the war, but had to wait until the F-14 arrived with its internal Vulcan. It's been said in several books that if VF-96's Phantoms had guns on 10 May 72, there would've been several more MiG kills that day. Any ex-F-4 drivers able to clear this up? ----== Posted via Newsfeeds.Com - Unlimited-Unrestricted-Secure Usenet News==---- http://www.newsfeeds.com The #1 Newsgroup Service in the World! 120,000+ Newsgroups ----= East and West-Coast Server Farms - Total Privacy via Encryption =---- Well For one thing, there plenty of Crusaders around still. They were doing more of the MIG killing. The rest was just typical DOD paper pushers not listening. |
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