Whiffing an F-105?

[PR19_Kit]

Oi, you two!

This thread is about Whiffing F-105s, NOT about the pluses and minuses of Phantoms.

Why, no problem...

There is this "argument" in the F-105 thread that goes on like this:

And you sort of just missed a chance to see why the F-104 was actually to have longer wings but clipped to reach Mach 2 way before any Phantom...

So why not start another thread on it?

[tahsin]

It's practically in the post in the Phantom thread.

[Army of One]

Been reading this with interest...i like the Israeli idea...as stated, loadaa different camo schemes....i also love the idea of a low level ship killer......Thai navy.....Greek navy....German in the dsrk grey/blue over light grey with ASM.....South African instead of Buccaneers....some form of modificatiion....maybe different engine exhaust n ejection seats....a Russian or Chinese copy reverse engineered from airframes gotten from Vietnam...?

[Geoff]

Italian Op Locusta?

[Army of One]

Woohoo......!!! While looking for some stuff for Chrisonord  (didn't find it..... ...) I found my Monogram 1/72 F105F.....mmmm, what to do with it......not up on these.....does it have a radar an if so....is it capable of handling ASM particularly anti ship.....?

[PR19_Kit]

.....does it have a radar an if so....is it capable of handling ASM particularly anti ship.....?

This is WhiffWorld, of COURSE it does!

[Army of One]

.....does it have a radar an if so....is it capable of handling ASM particularly anti ship.....?

This is WhiffWorld, of COURSE it does!

Ah.....yes, of course.....I was thinking of a nose transplant for it.....but what you say is way easier.........

[Gondor]

does it have a radar an if so....is it capable of handling ASM particularly anti ship.....?

I am sure it does, and if you want it to do so.

Gondor

[Weaver]

Woohoo......!!! While looking for some stuff for Chrisonord  (didn't find it..... ...) I found my Monogram 1/72 F105F.....mmmm, what to do with it......not up on these.....does it have a radar an if so....is it capable of handling ASM particularly anti ship.....?

It did have a radar: NASAAR R-14A. Primarily an air-to-ground navigation/weapons-aiming set, but it did have short-range air-to-air modes too. No mention of anti-shipping modes since that was never a mission the Thud was tasked with. I don't see any reason why it couldn't be modified for that task though, since the same basic radar was used on the F-104G that used to do anti-ship missions.

[overscan]

Pretty sure China got a crashed F-105 from Vietnam, at least they reverse engineered the NASAAR radar off one. They even modified the reverse-engineered radar for antiship work.

It might look good in PLAAF markings... maybe even blended with 1/48th MiG-21 wings or 1/72 Shenyang J-8 bits?  J-8 rear fuselage with twin engines, because they couldn't reverse engineer the big J-75 off the F-105?

[Captain Canada]

My idea