[ARC5] [Milsurplus] APS-4 on F4 F6 USN fighters

[Mike Morrow]

He means the F4U Corsair, not the F-4 Phantom II.

Note the dash between the aircraft type letter and the numerical designator that was standardized in aircraft nomenclature of all US services in 1962.  Prior to that, Navy, Marine Corps, and Coast Guard aircraft had no dash there, and the letter following the number indicated the manufactuer:
F4F  Grumman Wildcat
F4U  Consolidated Corsair
F4D  Douglass Phantom

There were NO "F4" aircraft in the USAF ever...they were F-4 aircraft.

Mike / KK5F
-----Original Message-----
From: ED SHARPE <couryhouse at aol.com>
Sent: Nov 5, 2023 12:32 AM
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Subject: Re: [ARC5] [Milsurplus] APS-4 on F4 F6 USN fighters

I would have thought the aps4 radar was older than the F4.... F4 was current when I was in the Air Force but then again we had vacuum tube radios for the control tower GRC 27 etc etc 
Ed#     SMECC MUSEUM 

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On Sat, Nov 4, 2023 at 10:14 PM, Hubert Miller
<Kargo_cult at msn.com> wrote:

Is this correct ?
No single place USAAF fighter plane had radar, while the US Navy's F4 and F6 had some variants with AN/APS-4 radar.
( Seems like a whole lot to pay attention to, in a single place fighter plane. ) 
 
-Hue Miller 
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