Originally Posted by
wiggy
Well the other side of this story is that despite the limitations at high level when it all worked the Spey'd F-4 was a pretty mean machine in the low level A/D role - Pulse Doppler radar, tooled up with 8 missiles and possibly the gun. The one thing the RR engines did provide in that environment was stacks of excess power which, combined with a high IAS limit (varied with configuration), could be handy when dealing with high speed possibly multiple targets .......oh, and one must not forget the hook.
I always reckoned it was certainly in it's element operating in fairly austere conditions down in the Falklands post conflict, operating off Stanley's metal strip,
All thst noise was the Best!
FB