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From: udecc!turner@BLACKBIRD.AFIT.AF.MIL (Bob Turner)
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Subject: Re: Fighters without guns
Keywords: Only the F-4?
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Date: 10 Jan 90 03:28:06 GMT
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From: udecc!turner@BLACKBIRD.AFIT.AF.MIL (Bob Turner)
In article <12928@cbnews.ATT.COM> dlj@cbnewsh.ATT.COM (david.l.jacobowitz) writes:
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>So I'm wondering what other U.S. fighters have been deployed
>without an internal gun.
>Does anybody know of any others?
>And how about fighters deployed by other countries?
>Has the USSR ever deployed a gunless fighter?
>I hope that this discussion is of some interest to the newsgroup.
>Thanks for the help.

I'm pretty sure that the F-101 Voodoo's, F-102 and F-106's were all missile
platforms. They were all designed, according to what I have read, as 
interceptors against large bomber formations. With that in mind, I know 
the F-101 and probably the others carried the Genie  nuclear air-to-air
missles for use against formations. They were gyro stablized with no
active or passive homing gear. The idea being aim at the formation and 
let it go. Loosely equivalent to trying to hit the broad side of a barn.

	I think there are others US fighters that were  missile only.
F-104? F3H Demon (predesscor to the Navy F4) possibly. But I can't remember. 

						Bob
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