"Charles Gray" wrote in message
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On Mon, 29 Dec 2003 13:05:01 GMT, Fred J. McCall
wrote:

(Henry J. Cobb) wrote:


:Anyway the Air Force already tried adopting a Navy jet fighter that
:didn't have a gun and they don't want to go there again.

Do you have ANY clue how long the F-4 was in Air Force service? Let's
just say that having the Navy design and build an airplane and making
the Air Force use it has historically been a lot more successful than
attempts to do it the other way around.

Only reasonable, since you have to add stuff to an airframe to make
it carrier worthy, in addiiton to other improvements. To use it the
other way around, either all you do is take some bits off, or just
leave them as is. (I recall some German F-4's at an airshow that
still had the arresting hook.).


The hook is used for runway arrestor landings. The same way as
Luftwaffe/Marineflieger F-104s, Tornados had/are fitted with hooks.

TJ