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I've been looking through Shlomo Aloni's Osprey book on
Israeli F-4 Phantom aces, and I note that around the time of the '73 war when they want to carry AIM-9s, they either 1. don't carry any A/G stores on that pylon (when carrying two AIM-9D/Gs on the shoulder mounts), or 2. only carry a single AIM-9D/G on one shoulder mount and delete the store carried on the same side (i.e., either the I/B or O/B side) station of the TER. Because they seem to have valued the AIM-9 far more than the AIM-7 for their strikers, the Israelis were often flying with a highly assymetric load, i.e. 5 M117s on the C/L, 3 M117s on the right I/B, and two AIM-9s on the left I/B, plus two tanks. I know that USAF F-4s were only able to fire AIM-9s OR drop bombs on a single mission prior to 1973 or so owing to wiring limitations (which is probably represented by condition 1 above), but condition 2 above implies that there's a clearance problem even after the wiring was changed. The Israelis later went so far as to develop an adapter for the forward right Sparrow well that allowed an IRM to be carried there, which allowed them to carry two bombs plus one AIM-9/Python 3 on the left I/B, decreasing the assymetry to almost nothing and increasing the bombload while still carrying a pair of IRMs. Can any of our resident F-4 types comment as to whether there were such clearance restrictions for simultaneous AIM-9/bomb carriage? TIA, Guy |
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