F-4G wild weasel

[Spey_Phantom]

second and last one for today, an F-4G in the markings of 349 squadron.

back story:

With as from 1990, many european air forces lacked a certain SEAD capability, thats why in september 1990, the NATO has asked certain countries to provide a certain level of SEAD capability. Belgium, Germany, UK and Norway agreed and started setting up new strike squadrons. The Luftwaffe and the RAF both used the Tornado ECR and GR.4/EF.3 variants while Norway modified 18 F-16A's for this task. Belgium on the other hand, thought that the F-16 had only a light and limited SEAD capability, and decided to buy a whole new fighter for this task.

In 1992, the first of 16 ex-USAF F-4G "wild weasel" configured phantoms arrived at SABCA for upgrade and refit, they recieved new glass cockpits, APG-65 radars and newly upgraded GE-440 engines (as in the F-18). in 1995, the first aircraft were delivered to 349 squadron in Kleine Brogel, where the unit used the aircraft to operate next to the F-16's. in 2000 12 of these aircraft were upgraded to "weasel MLU 2K" standard with new avionics, GPS and guidence systems. the other 4 were stored or used as source for spare parts.

The model:

the aircraft is a 144th scale academy F-4E kit, the nosecannon has been extended and modified to look like the G's guidence system. The HARM's are from several other kits.