dtmdragon

That is awsome mate, honestly I have no clue on the cable trays. Like you I could find sweet bugger all photos of it and just a handfull of written references about loadouts including the EMI recon pod and strike camera. Knowing the Brits I think your spot on about it simply being nothing more complex than a concrete filled missile body with attachment points! I'm slowly tidying up Sundowners most recent F-4K/M for SF2 uploads and setting them up to replace the stock game F-4K and M aircraft like the latest Phantom E models uploaded here at CA do.

Thanks mate that would be great! Possibly the template to please as the RAF inert missiles where painted completely blue but I can do that

RAF Phantoms in Germany carried them in the front right sparrow well as a counter weight when they had the strike camera in the front left sparrow well along with the centerline reconnaissance pod.

F-4K Phantoms from the HMS Royal Ark over the Falkland Islands in 1982 during Operation Corporate.

The F-4X and RF-4X were proposals for advanced F-4E derivatives designed by General Dynamics to carry the HIAC-1 long focal length camera as part of Project Peace Jack. This project was a joint Israel-USAF study for an advanced photo-reconnaissance aircraft capable of Mach 3+ performance. The HIAC-1 camera was an advanced high-altitude reconnaissance camera that had a focal length of 66 inches which offered unparalled resolution at extreme ranges The HIAC-1 camera was originally so large and heavy that it could only be carried by the Martin/General Dynamics RB-57F. However, later versions were sufficiently slimmed down so that they could potentially be carried by smaller aircraft such as the F-4 Phantom. Israel had always wanted the HIAC-1 camera for its own use in keeping track of its Arab neighbors, but its requests had always been turned down. However, in 1971, US attitudes towards export of the HIAC-1 camera changed and approval was given for the development of a pod (designated G-139) which could carry this camera on the belly of a Phantom. The prototype G-139 pod was over 22 feet long and weighed over 4000 pounds, and was first tested on an RF-4C in October of 1971. Unfortunately, the G-139 was still so large and bulky that the performance of the Phantom when it was carrying the pod was unacceptably poor. The Peace Jack project originated in an attempt to improve the performance of the Phantom when carrying this camera. Both the USAF and the government of Israel contributed funds for the project. Rather than trying to slim down the reconnaissance pod, the original goal of the General Dynamics team was to improve the performance of the Phantom that was carrying it. The improved performance was to be obtained by using water injection for pre-compressor cooling, which would provided increased engine thrust at high altitudes. A similar system had been used successfully in the past in various F-4 record attempts. The water was to be contained in a pair of gigantic 2500-gallon tanks which were to be attached conformally to the intersection joints of the fuselage spine and the engine nacelles. The water injection system promised to give a 150 percent increase in engine thrust at altitude. In order to accommodate the increased engine thrust that would now be available, new air intakes had to be designed. The area of the intakes was to be made much larger and they were to contain a sophisticated system of internal cowls, splitter plates, vortex generators and bleeds. With the new intakes and the water injection system, it was anticipated that maximum speeds of up to Mach 3.2 and cruising speeds of up to Mach 2.7 could be attained. The project came to be known as the F-4X, although this was not an official USAF designation. Israel was clearly very interested in the F-4X, as it promised a a performance which would approach that of the USAF's SR-71. This would enable it to fly unimpeded anywhere it wanted to. However, the advanced performance of the F-4X clearly made it a possible candidate for a new interceptor. Consequently, the US State Department became more than a little worried about the export of such advanced technology overseas, since it promised to give Israel a potential interceptor which was more capable than anything currently in the US arsenal, one which might one day pose a threat to the SR-71. In addition, the Air Force was itself rather nervous about the F-4X project, since it might threaten to divert support away from the F-15 program which was just then getting underway. As a result, the State Department decided to disallow export of this technology to Israel. This ordinarily would have been the end of the game. However, in the meantime, Israel had expressed concern about the amount of aerodynamic drag produced by the pod carrying the camera. In response to these concerns, General Dynamics decided to relocate the HIAC-1 camera to the nose, displacing the AN/APQ-120 radar. The project was redesignated RF-4X. The removal of the interceptor capability seems to have reassured the State Department, and Israel was once again allowed back into the Peace Jack program. An ex-IDFAF F-4E (USAF serial 69-7576) was delivered to General Dynamics in December of 1974 to act as a mockup for the RF-4X. The nose was recontoured on the starboard side only, and a paper-mache coolant tank was fitted to one side of the upper fuselage. New intakes with revised variable ramps were fitted. However, in the meantime, the Air Force began to have second thoughts about the project, still fearful of the impact of the RF-4X on the F-15 project and nervous about the safety and reliability of pre-compressor cooling. The USAF withdrew from the project shortly thereafter, forcing Israel to go it alone. By itself, Israel could not afford to continue the project, and the RF-4X program quietly died. The idea for the nose-mounted HIAC-1 camera was later revived to form the basis of the F-4E(S), which was first applied to F-4E 69-7576. The F-4E(S) pilot and systems officer wore full pressure suits from the David Clark Company which also made the pressure suits used by USAF U-2 and SR-71 crews as well as Space Shuttle crews. [MissionData] Ceiling=23800 [FlightControl] MaxSpeedSL=1097.6 MachLimit=3.2 MachLimitDry=2.4 [Fuselage] SystemName[027]=CFTR_fuel SystemName[028]=CFTL_fuel [Engine1] AltitudeTableNumData=40 AltitudeTableDeltaX=609.6 AltitudeTableStartX=0.0 AltitudeTableData=1.000,0.952,0.906,0.860,0.816,0.773,0.731,0.691,0.652,0.614,0.578,0.543,0.578,0.614,0.652,0.691,0.731,0.773,0.816,0.860,0.906,0.952,0.1000,1.100,1.200,1.300,1.400,1.500,1.500,1.500,1.500,1.500,1.500,1.500,1.500,1.500,1.500,1.500,1.500,0.000 [Engine2] AltitudeTableNumData=40 AltitudeTableDeltaX=609.6 AltitudeTableStartX=0.0 AltitudeTableData=1.000,0.952,0.906,0.860,0.816,0.773,0.731,0.691,0.652,0.614,0.578,0.543,0.578,0.614,0.652,0.691,0.731,0.773,0.816,0.860,0.906,0.952,0.1000,1.100,1.200,1.300,1.400,1.500,1.500,1.500,1.500,1.500,1.500,1.500,1.500,1.500,1.500,1.500,1.500,0.000 [CFTR_fuel] SystemType=FUEL_TANK FuelTankID=9 MaxFuelAmount=1133.98 SelfHealing=FALSE FireSuppression=TRUE MinExtentPosition= 3.98,-0.69, 0.25 MaxExtentPosition= 1.32, 2.12, 0.92 [CFTL_fuel] SystemType=FUEL_TANK FuelTankID=9 MaxFuelAmount=1133.98 SelfHealing=FALSE FireSuppression=TRUE MinExtentPosition=-3.98,-0.69, 0.25 MaxExtentPosition=-1.32, 2.12, 0.92

1, Download and install the Mirage Factory F-4E(s) Shablol Updated for SF2 1.0: http://combatace.com/files/file/13473-mirage-factory-f-4es-shablol-updated-for-sf2/ 2, Go into your mods folder, navigate to the aircraft folder and rename the F-4E(s) Shablol's main folder 'F-4E(S)' to 'RF-4X' 3, Download and unpack the 7z file attached to this post: objects.7z 4, Copy and paste the 'Aircraft' and 'Pilots' folder into the 'objects' folder in your mods folder, IMPORTANT: make SURE you merge and overwrite the files when you do.

Cant forget the IDF.... and a few color/ serial number changes for the RAAF...

F-22? FMS export variant... https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/42318/f-22-export-briefing-shows-what-it-would-have-taken-to-sell-the-raptor-abroad

Agreed, it was a good watch

In the Mirage F1 download off the top of my head

As the title says I can not for the life of me find the A-4B cockpit textures in any of the objectdata cat folders...???? Anyone know where they are?

How embarrassing! 🤦🤦🤦 sorry mate I simply couldn't see the tree from the forest! Not sure how I missed it but I did! Thanks for finding it for me anyway!

THANK YOU! Found it with your CATExtractor search feature. They are in Cat001 of all places

Tried that to no avail..... 🤦

I know and I have tried!!! I searched every cat with the cat extractor and they are not there???

It has the A-4B cockpit.ini file and aircraft skin textures but not the cockpit textures or cockpit instrument textures etc. Which is weird as they are all there for the A-4C and E etc

Some of my fallow 'what if' moders out there might find this useful... It was was just sitting on my PC.

This has been done for all aircraft in the ODS 30 mod that carried an external ECM pod. So that makes an easy starting point

Trial was in 1971 with the Thomson (Ferranti) C.S.F. R22 Gyro Gunsight. Picture, PDF and info here: https://www.f-16.net/forum/viewtopic.php?f=46&t=53537&start=45 My own SF2 version here: A-4G_71_Trial.7z

What aircraft/ gunsight are you doing? Not the experimental Australian Navy A-4G air-to-air sight (by Ferranti) by any chance?

You could use a keyboard letter assigned to the separate 'guns or rockets selected function' eg the + key. The location is defined by co-ordinates like the location of the airspeed number etc. I did something similar for the GR.3 revisionary sight for the Falklands campaign. The sight was basically a big lowercase 't' with the horizontal line changing position depending on guns, bombs or rockets being selected. For this I had a vertical line that came up in air to ground mode and the horizontal lines are made up of multiple underscore lines together: ____ called up by the bomb/guns/rockets selected text with the position moved by the diffrent coordinates for each type of weapon. Harrier3.7z

"Bump" Does anyone have a PR.9 nearly ready for release or needs finishing (I'm offering 😁)?

My understanding is they do but only ever utilize the fuselage check stations. It's thier self defence option but the ability/ clearance to carry AIM-120 is the same as the E/F. Put it this way; the RAAF haven't done any additional clearance programs for AIM-120 carriage like with the AIM-9 or ATFLIR so it must be an original off the shelf capability. Just one the USN don't utilize which makes sense as they have the resources to provide Growlers with in depth protection where as the RAAF require the Growlers to self escort in some situations with thier more limited fighter fleets. So we see this capability exercised more often and enhanced with the AIM-9X.

I believe all Growlers including USN have full AIM-120 capability and carriage.