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On Sat, 25 Oct 2003 18:01:25 GMT, Ed Rasimus
wrote: On Sat, 25 Oct 2003 16:44:49 GMT, "Tom Cooper" wrote: Why were the AWG-9 and the AIM-54 not put into any other plane? The answer is simple: needs at the time and the aircraft construction. The AWG-9 was a huge system when designed for the F-111B, which was developed for service aboard the USN carriers through the 1960s. Although considerably updated and thus made lighter by almost 500kg, it remained a huge system when it was put into the F-14, in 1969. And still, the F-14 was not designed "around" the AWG-9 and the AIM-54, but first as a dogfighter, armed with a gun, Sparrows and Sidewinders, to fight MiG-17s and MiG-21s. Once this capability was developed, the designers went to find out how to fit the AWG-9 and the AIM-54s on it. One of the results of this work became the "paletts" on which the AIM-54s are mounted. Another was the largest cockpit of any fighter aircraft ever. While I bow to your knowledge of the radar and AIM-54, as well as history of the Iranian applications of the aircraft, I've got to question some of your other assertions here. Clearly by the time of production of the F-14, the anticipated threat had migrated forward beyond MiG-17 and focussed more closely on 21, 23, 27 and future developments from the Soviet block. Additionally, there was concern with free world designs used by swing nations--aircraft like Mirage III and F-1, for example. (As an aside, how does size of the radar or "paletts" for the Phoenix result in a larger cockpit? Gotta say the F-105 cockpit was the biggest single-seat office I ever saw and the F-15 operator station isn't cramped, either.) The cockpit of the Crusader III looked pretty big too. |
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