In September 1953 g. Company "McDonnell Douglas" started creation of the twin-engine all-weather fighter, and in July 1955 g. He was awarded a contract to build two prototypes XF4H-1 and five pre-production aircraft, which became known as the Phantom " 2 (previously had a plane named "Phantom"). fighter engineering design was completed in August 1956 g. Its first flight "Phantom" 2 done 27 May 1958 g. 23 experimental series aircraft later received the designation F-4A and only used for flight testing, during which the higher performance characteristics were obtained, than expected.
F-4 Phantom plane 2 – video
December 1960 g. for the US Navy began shipping production version, which in September 1962 g. I received the designation F-4A. When in October 1979 g. production of "Phantom" 2 ceased, it was issued 5057 machines, of them 1196 for foreign customers. Besides, the company "Mitsubishi" built under license 127 F-4. The total number of produced aircraft, in this way, reached 5195 machines (with which only the MiG-21 can compete).
"Phantom" aircraft 2 once we set an absolute world record altitude (30040 m) 6 December 1959 g. and speed (2585,43 kmh) 22 November 1961 g. World record speed at low altitude (1452 kmh) lasted 16 years. Given the enormous role, We played by the F-4 aircraft in combat in Vietnam, can say, that "Phantom" 2 He was one of the best in the world of military aircraft of its time.
modifications
F-4B (F4H-1) - variant with engines J79-GE-2A-2U thrust of 7326 kg. Impact variant F-4B was equipped with a fire control radar APQ 72 and could carry up 7257 kg different weapons percussion.
QF-4B - designation of aircraft F-4B, converted into unmanned target.
RF-4B (F4H-1Р) - unarmed photo reconnaissance on the basis of F-4B with an extended nose section for the US Navy (first flight 12 Martha 1965 city).
F-4C - version of fighter-attack aircraft, similar to F-4B. but with the J79-GE-15 dual-control and engine thrust of 7711 kg, and other changes in aircraft systems (first flight 27 I 1963 city).
EF-4C - designation of aircraft F-4C, converted into a configuration "Wild Weasel" for conducting electronic warfare.
RF-4C - tactical reconnaissance aircraft based on the F-4C, but equipped with both RF-4B (first flight 18 May 1964 city).
F-4D - the production version for the US Air Force. similar to F-4C, but with equipment to solve problems of the Air Force (first flight 8 December 1965 city)
EF-4D - designation of aircraft F-4D, converted in configuration "Wild Weasel" (electronic intelligence and fire suppression of air defense radar).
F-4E - main production version with more powerful engines J79-GE-17, increased fuel stocks, new radar APQ-120 with smaller dimensions by switching to the microelectronic circuit, with slats to improve maneuverability and embedded 20 mm sextuple-gun with ammunition 639 shells (first flight 30 June 1967 city). On a number of F-4E fighter to wear the right wing of the console was installed television security for air "Thiseio" objectives, allowing to identify enemy aircraft at great distances.
F-4E(J) - variant F-4E, manufactured in Japan under license "Mitsubishi" and "Kawasaki".
RF-4E - export version of the F-4E, equipped to conduct tactical reconnaissance.
RF-4E( J) - unarmed reconnaissance version of the F-4E(J) Japan Air Force.
F-4F - variant F-4E for the German Air Force, MBB modernized corporation 1991 g.
F-4G «Wilde Uizel» - variant plane F-4B (first flight 20 Martha 1963 city), applied in ASW-1 Vietnam with data link system of fighting against ground targets. Subsequently, such a designation received series aircraft F-4E, converted in configuration "Wild Weasel" (first flight 6 December 1975 city). Conversion of the first aircraft F-4G serial configuration was completed in April 1978 city, and in the same year he began to come into service.
F-4G «Wild Weasel" is intended for the detection and suppression of air defense radars to strike aircraft flight routes to the objects of attacks in breaking the enemy's air defense, as well as to carry out independent operations to suppress air defense systems. For the destruction of enemy air defense systems used ELDP, SD-class "air-surface" the AGM-65 "Maverick" with optoelectronic GOS and cluster munitions to destroy area targets.
In this task, F-4G aircraft should be the first step into the battle zone to suppress enemy air defense ground vehicles. Accompanying the strike aircraft is carried out in the breakout zone defense and deep penetration behind enemy lines. In this case, before the F-4G seeks to create a safe corridor span attack aircraft to the target. Depending on the type of target, mounted weapons and the nature of the fighting aircraft F-4G can fly at medium and low altitudes. goals and mission Attack near its carried out at a height of 60 300 m at high subsonic speeds.
On the F-4G aircraft and E used: pritselnonavigatsionnaya ANyAPQ-120 radar, Computer control system launch missiles AN / ASQ-91, digital ANN AN / ARN-101, hardware reset chaff and IR traps AN / ALE-40, combined with a radar illumination warning system. The hold armament set 25 quick-blocks station ELINT-detect and locate APR-38 radar radiation sources.
The structure of F-4G defense electronic equipment includes a container with AN / ALQ equipment 119-12 (-14) for jamming in the frequency range 2 3 up to 8-10 GHz with the equipment or container for jamming AN / ALQ-131. Basic avionics of the aircraft F-4G is the AN / APR-38 system. it switches the calculator HAWC to represent the members of the crew of classified data about the threat, on the management of the system for different modes of operation, a display unit CIS, riflescope AN / APQ-30 (Mod) and block superheterodyne. System AN / APR-38 is designed for detecting radar radiation from all Soviet existing pulsed radar and continuous wave radar. Plane F-4G high-speed ELDP armed AGM-88A / C HARM, which can be used for self-destruction or the specified or suddenly detected targets The composition of the aircraft weapons may also include other ELDP, guided weapons, triggered outside the object air defense enemy, and conventional weapons.
F-4J - carrier-based multirole fighter of the US Navy (first flight 27 May 1966 city), with J79-GE-10 engine thrust of 8119 kg. increased wing and tail reworked to improve takeoff and landing performance, equipped with an automatic landing system on an aircraft carrier.
F-4K - a modified version F-4J to British Navy motors Rolls-Royce Spey RB.168-25R Mk.202 / 203 thrust of 9305 kg. The British Navy, these aircraft were designated "Phantom» FG Mk 1.
F-4M - modernized version of the F-4K, British Navy designated as "Phantom» FGR Mk.2.
F-4N - US Navy carrier-based fighter based on the F-4B with enhanced design and equipped with modern electronic equipment (first flight 4 June 1972 city).
F-4S - modernized version of the F-4J with reinforced construction and installed slats.
The plane made by the normal aerodynamic scheme, with a low-swept tapered wing, having a folding console, and swept tail. The fuselage itself the summer semi-monocoque, its nose is down to improve visibility from the cockpit. chassis tricycle. The front leg with two wheels retracted back, basic rack - in the wing.
The aircraft F-4E has two Turbojet. Fuel is placed in seven soft fuel tanks at the top of the fuselage and two integral tanks in the central part of the wing. Besides, under the wing and the fuselage provides for the suspension of two of the PTB. There refueling system in flight by means of the telescopic rod (Air Force aircraft) and "hose-cone" system (for deck machinery).
Management irreversibility busternoe, The hydraulically driven, and three-axis damping system. There ACS AN / ASA-32. The structure of the aircraft fire control system F-4E includes a pulse – doplerovskaya radar AN / APQ 120 (It is able to detect air targets only on a background space at maximum range 70 km), AN / ASQ-26 riflescope, bomber navigational subsystem AN / AJB-7 and resolver AN / ASQ-91 bombing. EW means includes a radiation detecting radar receivers AN / APR-36/37 and jammers AN / ALO-71/72/87.
Piloting and navigation system F-4E ANN consists of AN / ASN-63, computing devices AN / ASN-46 and radio altimeter altimeters AN / APN-155. For communication navigation and identification system has a complex AN / ASQ-19, comprising transceiver TACAN navigation system. At nine nodes external suspension F-4E aircraft can carry four SD medium-range AIM-7 "Sparrow" in the recess under the fuselage, SKILLS 'Sperrou'. "Sidewinder" and "Shrike" on underwing hardpoints, and two or three containers SUU-16 / A or SUU-23 / A with guns M61A1 (ammunition 1200 rounds per gun), block with NAR, svobodnopadayuschie bomb, spray tanks on the underwing and ventral central nodes. The aircraft can be armed with two nuclear bombs Mk.43, Mk.57. Mk.61 or Mk.28. For action against ground targets can be equipped with six SD ACM-65 "Maverick".
Fighter F-4 for a long time remained the main aircraft air superiority the US Air Force and Navy. "Baptism of fire" "Phantom" was held 2 April 1965 g. Vietnam, where this type of aircraft met with North Vietnamese MiG-17F. FROM 1966 g. main opponents of "Phantom" became the MiG-21PF. "Phantoms", consisting in the Air Force arsenal Iran, They were used in the Iran-Iraq war (1980— 1988 gg.).
Performance characteristics of F-4 Phantom 2
– First flight: 27 May 1958 of the year
– End of operation: 1992 year
– units produced: 5195
F-4 Phantom Crew 2
– 2 man
The dimensions of the F-4 Phantom 2
– Wingspan, m: 11,70
– Length of the plane, m: 19,20
– Aircraft height, m: 5.00.
– wing area, m2: 49,20
– The angle of sweep of 1/4 Poisoning, city: 45
Weight F-4 Phantom 2
– empty aircraft: 13760
– fuel: 6080
– normal take-off weight: 20800
– maximum takeoff weight: 26330
Engine F-4 Phantom 2
– 2 x ТРДФ General Electric J79-GE-17
– Maximum thrust, kN: besforsazhny 2 x 53,00
– Maximum thrust, kN: afterburner 2 x 79,60
F-4 Phantom Speed 2
– Maximum speed at low altitude, kmh: 1200 (M = 1,15)
– The maximum speed at high altitude, kmh: 2300 (M = 2.2)
– The maximum rate of climb, m,min: 15000
– The length of the run, m: 1340
– path length with brake parachute, m: 950
Practical ceiling F-4 Phantom 2
– 16 600 m
Flight range F-4 Phantom 2
– 2380 km (without PTB)
Armament F-4 Phantom 2
– 1 × 20 mm M61A1 Vulcan six-barreled gun (639 shells),
– The combat load 9 nodes external suspension
– 4 SD medium-range AIM-7 Sparrow in recesses under the fuselage, УР AIM-7 Sparrow, AIM-9 Sidewinder, AIM-4 Falcon, SD Bullpup or Shrike on underwing hardpoints, 6 УР AGM-65 Maveric.
– block with NAR, svobodnopadayuschie bomb
– The aircraft can carry two nuclear bombs Mk 43, Mk57, Mk61, Mk28.
Photo F-4 Phantom 2