To answer mtblillie's question, the two seat -105 was a wild weasel or radar killer version. I built a model(still have it) of it when I was a young lad. The single seat -D was a supersonic tactical fighter-bomber & the two seat -F was a fighter-bomber/trainer. The -G model was the Wild Weasel version & was use to suppress North Viet Nam's missle defenses(Russian SA-2 Surface to Air Missiles). The -105 had an internal bomb bay to house a nuke, but later it had a fuel tank installed because of use in the Viet Nam war. The tank was installed because the -105's would have to use their afterburners a whole lot on bombing missions over North Viet Nam & the Pratt & Whitney J75-P-19W engine was quite thirsty!
To answer mtblillie's question, the two seat -105 was a wild weasel or radar killer version. I built a model(still have it) of it when I was a young lad. The single seat -D was a supersonic tactical fighter-bomber & the two seat -F was a fighter-bomber/trainer. The -G model was the Wild Weasel version & was use to suppress North Viet Nam's missle defenses(Russian SA-2 Surface to Air Missiles). The -105 had an internal bomb bay to house a nuke, but later it had a fuel tank installed because of use in the Viet Nam war. The tank was installed because the -105's would have to use their afterburners a whole lot on bombing missions over North Viet Nam & the Pratt & Whitney J75-P-19W engine was quite thirsty!
Cool, thanks for the info. If I remember right that engine was a little slower too, it couldn't just jump out of a fight the way that F-4s could
The J-75 had a max thrust rating of 25,000 lbs with afterburner & gave the Thud a max speed of Mach 2.25 @ 38,000 ft. The F-4E with two J-79-GE-17 engines had a max thrust rating of 17,000 lbs with afterburner (X2) & gave the Phantom a max speed of Mach 2.27 @ high altitude(50,000-60,000+ feet). So the Phantom was just a little faster, but not by much.
The KFIR is about the best looking fighter out there. I almost wish stealth becomes obsolete so we can design planes with respect to aerodynamics and not sawtoothed edges.
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Cool, thanks for the info. If I remember right that engine was a little slower too, it couldn't just jump out of a fight the way that F-4s could
I just LOVE that design.
http://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A1%D0%BA%D0%B0%D1%82_(%D0%91%D0%9F%D0%9B%D0%90)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MiG_Skat
http://www.airwar.ru/enc/bpla/skat.html
did it long time ago