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	History of the F-14
		The missile, EAGLE, and the fire control system were started first since their development times were longer than for the airplane, and firm specifications for those items were needed for the airplane competition.
		The MISSILEER development was started with a small preliminary engineering contract, but major funding was deferred by the Secretary of Defense until the incoming administration could review the program and make its own determination as to whether or not it should be undertaken.
		The radar and missiles were reduced in capability to be compatible with a supersonic airplane, as well as the endurance time.
	www.georgespangenberg.com /vf1.htm (2591 words)

	General Dynamics F-111 - Open Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Since the cancellation of the F6D Missileer in December 1960 the Navy had been reconsidering variable geometry for the FAD requirement.
		Missiles: The F-111B was capable of carrying two AIM-54 Phoenix air-to-air missiles in the bay.
		The Phoenix missiles and radar developed for this plane (and the earlier, cancelled F6D Missileer) were eventually used on its replacement, the F-14 Tomcat.
	open-encyclopedia.com /F-111 (4876 words)

	F6D-1 Missileer
		On 21 July 1960 the Navy announced that a contract for the development of the Missileer aircraft for launching the Eagle long-range air-to-air guided missile, was being issued to the Douglas Aircraft Corporation.
		The Missileer was to be capable of remaining on patrol for up to six hours, tracking targets at long range using its powerful Westinghouse APQ-81 pulsed-Doppler track-while-scan radar and attacking threats with its six long-range Bendix XAAM-10 Eagle air-to-air missiles.
		Consequently, the F6D and its Eagle missiles were both put on hold in December of 1960 in the waning days of the Eisenhower administration.
	www.globalsecurity.org /military/systems/aircraft/f6d.htm (685 words)

	F6D Missileer - Encyclopedia Glossary Meaning Explanation F6D Missileer (Site not responding. Last check: )
		F6D Missileer - Encyclopedia Glossary Meaning Explanation F6D Missileer.
		The F6D-1 would have been helpless after launching its missiles, lacking defensive armament, speed, or maneuverability to defend itself, and despite its cost it was useless for any role other than air defense.
		The F6D-1's missile and radar technologies were both later used, in evolved form, in the Grumman F-14.
	www.encyclopedia-glossary.com /en/F6D-Missileer.html (393 words)

	F6D Missileer -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The Missileer's (Measuring instrument in which the echo of a pulse of microwave radiation is used to detect and locate distant objects) radar was to be the Westinghouse AN/APQ-81 pulse Doppler set, with a range of 120 nm (220 km) and "track while scan" capability.
		It was to be able to engage up to six targets simultaneously with (additional info and facts about Bendix) Bendix AAM-N-10 Eagle (A missile designed to be launched from one airplane at another) air-to-air missiles, with a range of 100 nm (185 km).
		The Eagle missile was also cancelled, but after strenuous objections by the Navy, the technology was transferred to (United States industrialist who was an aviator and a film producer; during the last years of his life he was a total recluse (1905-1976)) Hughes for the (additional info and facts about AIM-54 Phoenix) AIM-54 Phoenix missile.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/F/F6/F6D_Missileer1.htm (415 words)

	General Dynamics F-111 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The F-111's beginnings were in the TFX, an ambitious early 1960s project to combine the U.S. Air Force requirement for a fighter-bomber with the U.S. Navy's need for a long-range carrier defense fighter to replace the F-4 Phantom II and the F-8 Crusader.
		Missiles: The F-111B was intended to be capable of carrying two AIM-54 Phoenix air-to-air missiles in the bay.
		The F-111B was to be a fleet-defense fighter for the U.S. Navy, fulfilling a long-standing naval requirement for a fighter capable of carrying heavy, long-range missiles to defend carriers from Soviet anti-ship missiles.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/General_Dynamics_F-111 (5201 words)

	Encyclopedia: General Dynamics F-111 (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Sidewinder Missile The AIM-9 Sidewinder is a heat-seeking, short-range, air-to-air missile carried by fighter aircraft.
		The design of the F-111's fuselage prevents the carriage of external weapons under the fuselage (although there are two small stations, one on the weapon bay, the other on the rear fuselage between the engines, for ECM pods).
		An anti-radiation missile is a missile which is designed to detect and home in on the emissions of an enemy radar installation.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/General-Dynamics-F_111 (12265 words)

	OnlineCrewing.com - Free Article / Library
		The early beam riding versions of the Sparrow missiles were integrated onto the F3H Demon and F7U Cutlass, but the definitive AIM-7 Sparrow was the primary weapon for the all weather, gun-less F-4 Phantom II fighter/interceptor with up to four carried in special recesses under the fuselage.
		Once in its terminal mode, the missile's advanced electronic counter countermeasures (ECCM) support and good maneuverability mean that the chance of it hitting or exploding close to the target is high (on the order of 90%), as long as it has enough remaining energy to maneuver with the target if it is evasive.
		If one or more missiles fail to hit, the AMRAAM-equipped aircraft can turn and re-engage, although they will be at a disadvantage compared to the chasing aircraft due to the speed they lose in the turn, and would have to be careful that they're not being tracked with SARH missiles.
	www.onlinecrewing.com /article/sailor.php?q=AIM (2920 words)

	B1B - Information at Halfvalue.com
		Missiles of the era, like the Atlas and Redstone, required a lengthy fueling procedure immediately before launch, and were therefore vulnerable to air attack while still on the ground.
		Missiles like the AIM-120 and AIM-9X so improved on older designs that the primary determinant of air combat success appears to be having the best radars and display systems â“ the aircraft that can detect, lock-on and shoot first will almost certainly win an engagement, even, to a limited degree, against aircraft behind it.
		The idea of a "missile truck" for air-to-air combat has long been a dream of fighter designers, notably in the U.S. Navy (in the form of the canceled F6D Missileer), but these designs were always found to be seriously flawed when the missiles turned out to have disappointing real-world performance compared to their paper predictions.
	www.halfvalue.com /wiki.jsp?topic=B1B (7964 words)

	The Grumman F-14 Tomcat
		The Missileer itself began to look unpromising, since it was envisioned as a lumbering "missile truck" that would not be capable of close-in dogfighting, and the Eagle missile program faltered as well.
		Another problem with carrying six Phoenix missiles is that the drag of the two extra missiles on the wing glove pylons cuts into aircraft performance and flight endurance.
		As a result, the missile's development program was modified to ensure that the new variant of the Phoenix could defeat countermeasures developed against older variants.
	www.faqs.org /docs/air/avtomcat.html (8257 words)

	Naval Aviation Planning -- A Retrospective View
		That conversation did not change the development program, but it did alert that officer to the circumstances which had produced it, and gave him some confidence that many of the officers and civilians with whom he was to work for the next couple of years shared his obvious frustration.
		By the time of the F-4 reconfiguration, however, a consensus had been reached on the necessity of moving from guns to all weather missiles as primary armament if our fighters were to deal effectively with the expected threat.
		Since the "Missileer" was completely unsuitable for the Air Force mission, the Navy undertook a study of its own "TFX", a version which might do a reasonable job of fleet air defense, and which also could perform a reasonable strike mission.
	www.georgespangenberg.com /a13.htm (6335 words)

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		Missiles are not the subject of this document, but Navaho is worth mentioning.
		Later the Atlas missile was used as a launcher for space programmes.
		B-87, Douglas The Skybolt missile, a air-launched ballistic missile that was cancelled in 1961.
	users.skynet.be /Emmanuel.Gustin/faq/us_mil.txt (15342 words)

	F-14 Tomcat - All About All (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Iran was unable to regain any substantial ability to maintain the aircraft after that (despite receiving spare parts and missiles for the aircraft during the Iran-Contra affair) and their ability to operate the aircraft as of 2004, while unknown, is estimated to be extremely limited.
		Some rumors suggest that a few of the AIM-54 Phoenix missiles supplied to Iran before the revolution were sold to the Soviet Union, where they may have strongly influenced the development of the similar Vympel AA-9 'Amos' long-range missile.
		It is also believed that the MIM-23 HAWK surface-to-air defence missiles that were also a carry over from the pre-revolution period have been adapted to be used as air-to-air missiles and integrated for use with the F-14.
	www.answers-zone.com /article/F-14_Tomcat (2268 words)

	The Racing Campbells - Donald & Malcolm Campbell - Bluebird for Scrap
		The F6D aircraft was considered by the Navy to be too costly and too specialized, and was thought to be too slow to be capable of defending itself once its missiles had been launched.
		Four Phoenix missiles were to be carried on swiveling pylons underneath the wings, with two Phoenix missiles being housed inside the fuselage weapons bay.
		In June of 1990, the SRAM missiles were removed from the inventory because of safety concerns regarding the integrity of their W69 nuclear warheads in the event of a fire.
	www.racingcampbells.com /content/campbell.archives/aardvark.F-111.asp (13995 words)

	F6D Missileer : Freebase - The World's Database
		The Douglas F6D Missileer was a proposed carrier-based fleet defense fighter aircraft, designed in response to a 1959 US Navy requirement.
		The Missileer's radar was to be the Westinghouse AN/APQ-81 pulse Doppler set, with a range of 120 nm (220 km) and "track while scan" capability.
		It was to be able to engage up to six targets simultaneously with Bendix AAM-N-10 Eagle air-to-air missile, with a range of 100 nm (185 km).
	www.freebase.com /view/f6d_missileer (245 words)

	Annotations Template
		Prevailing doctrine held that the likelihood of large-scale dogfights between opposing aircraft was declining in the "missile age." As a result, the United States de-emphasized training fighter pilots in classic air combat maneuvering, tactics, and aerial gunnery.
		Interestingly, this concept of the "standoff" fighter cruising along and lobbing shells at a foe was resurrected in the missile age in the form of the Douglas F6D Missileer program of the late 1950’s.
		But given the tremendous proliferation of surface-to-air missile systems, networked air defense systems, and newer generation fighters such as the emerging advanced Sukhoi Flanker family, it is impossible to guarantee that this level of air supremacy--indeed dominance--will continue, unless the right choices are made in fighter acquisition.
	www.airforcehistory.hq.af.mil /EARS/Hallionpapers/control_of_air.htm (14491 words)

	General Dynamics F-111
		The F-111's beginnings were in the TFX, an ambitious early 1960s project to combine the USAF requirement for a fighter-bomber with the U.S. Navy's need for a long-range air defence fighter to replace the F-4 Phantom II and the F-8 Crusader.
		The Phoenix missiles and AN/AWG-8 radar developed for this plane (and the earlier, cancelled F6D Missileer) were eventually used on its replacement, the F-14 Tomcat.
		So fundamental were the aircraft's flaws that it led Navy Vice Admiral Thomas Connolly to remark that "There isn't enough thrust in Christendom to fix this plane" in reply to a question by a Senator on whether improved engines would correct the airplane's inadequacies.
	www.sciencedaily.com /encyclopedia/general_dynamics_f_111 (2156 words)

	F6D Missileer - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
		F6D Missileer - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
		The F6D-1 would have weighed approximately 50,000 pounds (22,650 kg) and been powered by two Pratt and Whitney TF30-P-2 non-afterburning turbofan engines optimized for fuel efficiency rather than speed.
		F6D Missileer, Specifications (F6D-1, as designed), General characteristics, Performance, Armament and Related content.
	www.arikah.com /encyclopedia/F6D_Missileer (365 words)

	Key Publishing Ltd Aviation Forums - Why was the Vigilante never offered as an Interceptor to the USN?
		The USN put significant effort into creating such an interceptor, first there was the F6D Missileer that was cancelled in 1960 as being utterly useless as anything other than a missile truck (it was subsonic).
		The frontal area of the Missileer was huge for a fighter, and there is no way that the avionics of the Missileer could have been accomodated aboard the Vigilante without a forward fuselage redesign and a far smaller antenna.
		The F6D was speciallized for long CAP endurance, being the first application of the TF30.
	forum.keypublishing.co.uk /printthread.php?t=72358&pp=40 (4984 words)

	Read about General Dynamics F-111 at WorldVillage Encyclopedia. Research General Dynamics F-111 and learn about General ... (Site not responding. Last check: )
		AGM-69 SRAM nuclear missiles in its weapons bay.
		1990, they could carry up to four AGM-69 SRAM nuclear missiles on the wing pylons, although two was the more normal fit.
		The EF-111 was not capable of firing AGM-45 Shrike, AGM-78 Standard, or AGM-88 HARM missiles in the lethal
	encyclopedia.worldvillage.com /s/b/General_Dynamics_F-111 (4755 words)

	Welcome to AvWings
		This aircraft was to have the ability to loiter on patrol for much longer times with substantially larger and more capable air-to-air missiles, and was to be able to meet and counter threats to the carrier group at much larger ranges.
		The Missileer was to be capable of remaining on patrol for up to six hours, tracking targets at long range using its powerful Hughes pulsed-Doppler track-while-scan radar and attacking threats with its six long-range Bendix XAAM-10 Eagle air-to-air missiles.
		The F6D aircraft was considered by the Navy to be too costly and too specialized, and was thought to be too slow to be capable of defending itself once its missiles had been launched.
	www.avwings.com /pics/f111.html (4664 words)

	F-14 Tomcat (thing)@Everything2.com
		It is an artificial missile to the future, a broken sperm fired into the womb of tomorrow.
		In the late 1950s the US Navy had toyed with an aircraft called the Douglas F6D Missileer, a machine that was designed purely and simply to raise missiles into the air, carry them for several hours, and if need be point them in the direction of the enemy and launch them off.
		Its AIM-54 Phoenix missiles had an exceptionally long range of over 100 nautical miles, five times the range of its most obvious modern-day equivalent, the AIM-120.
	www.everything2.com /index.pl?node_id=1803545 (2682 words)

	MilitaryFugu.com - Your Source For All High Resolution Military Images
		The introduction of anti-aircraft missiles rendered this mode of operation dangerous; in order to maintain its high speed the aircraft had to fly at high altitudes, which allowed missile sites more than enough time to track and attack the B-70.
		Although Reagan's primary attack on Carter's decision was now rendered moot, he immediately changed his complaint saying that Carter was giving away secrets and politicizing the Pentagon, charges that led to a round of sparring between Brown and Reagan in the press.
		The unofficial 1983 James Bond film Never Say Never Again features a cruise missile launch from a B-1 bomber (although a sequence in which cruise missiles are loaded onto the B-1 was filmed with a Concorde SST substituting for the B-1's undercarriage).
	www.militaryfugu.com /Aircraft/B1 (7066 words)

	F-16.net - Air Force T-Shirt
		The aircraft of choice was the Douglas F6D Missileer - this ugly descendant of the F3D Skynight was happily terminated in 1960.
		The Eagle missile was also canceled but the core technology was then transferred to Hughes as part of the weapons system for the FB-111B Naval Strike Fighter eventually becoming the Phoenix.
		In 1958 the Hughes AIM-4 Falcon missile was designed to equip the North American F-108 Rapier interceptor, when this airframe was canceled the missile and radar systems were transferred to the F-12 program where the YF-12 was used to launch the Hughes AIM-47 Falcon missile with guidance from the Hughes AN/ASG-18 radar system.
	www.f-16.net /f-16_forum_viewtopic-t-9499.html (1468 words)

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