Hawker Hunter F.6M

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Hawker Hunter F.6M - 1435 Flight, RAF South Atlantic Command, 1966

 

The introduction of the Lightning F.1 and F.1A into RAF Fighter Command in 1960 and 1961 began to free-up Hunter F.6's most of which were earmarked for conversion into ground-attack aircraft for the RAF (as the FGA.9) or for export. But the Falklands Crisis of May 1961 led to the decision to base a detachment of fighter aircraft at RAF Stanley and a batch of 8 Hawker Hunter F.6's were urgently converted into F.6M's a minimum-change conversion armed with the Firestreak missile and improved navigation and radio equipment. The first four Hunter F.6M's were dispatched as deck cargo arriving at Port Stanley in September 1961 to form No.1435 Flight who quickly christened the aircraft Faith, Hope, Charity and Desperation. The second batch of Hunters arrived in December 1961 but with improving diplomatic relations were basically used to keep the original four aircraft airworthy until a rotation policy was adopted. The Hunter F.6M's served until 1976 when they were replaced by Lightning F.2A's.

 

 

 

The new DLC Hunter F.6/F60 (did the Netherlands use this designation?) has been used here with a tweak to get Firestreaks to appear.

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The new DLC Hunter F.6/F60 (did the Netherlands use this designation?)

 

 

Got 2 sources that state the F.mk60 was the Saudi Arabia export version

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Got 2 sources that state the F.mk60 was the Saudi Arabia export version

 

That's what the Putnam book says too. And there were only four of them.