Douglas F6D Missileer

(GRRRRRRR - das ist schon der Dritte Versuch !!!! Naja, wenigstens hab ich beim zweiten Versuch dran gedacht, den Text zu speichern....)

Douglas F6D Missileer

- Project for a large subsonic missile-carrier, powered with two P&W TF30-P-2 engines. The three-man crew would be able to make six hour patrol flights, and lauch six long-range Eagle missiles to intruders. Cancelled. (Quelle: http://www.csd.uwo.ca/~pettypi/elevon/gustin_military/db/)

- Both the Phoenix missiles and the AN/AWG-9 radar had evolved from the earlier abortive Douglas F6D Missileer program. The Phoenix missile fire-control system owed much to the USAF's ASG-18 system which had originally been developed for the abortive F-108 Rapier project. (Quelle: http://home.att.net/~jbaugher1/f111_4.html)

Hmm, interessant. Demnach wurde das Phoenix-Waffensystem (mit Vorläufern) auf 4 Typen ausgetestet (F-108 Rapier, F6S Missileer, F-111 und F-14) ?

- V téže dobì požadovalo námoønictvo dvojmístný palubní obranný stíhaè, jako náhradu za McDonnell F-4 Phantom a Vought F-8 Crusader. Tento letoun mìl mít vìtší vytrvalost, nést vìtší množství støel vzduch-vzduch a kontrolovat vìtší vzdušný prostor. Pro tento úkol uvažovalo námoønictvo o typu Douglas F6D-1 Missileer.
F6D-1 byl podzvukový letoun podobný zvìtšenému F3D Skyknight. Byl pohánìn dvìma turbovrtulovými motory. Osádka byla trojèlenná (pilot, druhý pilot a zbraòový operator). Missileer mìl vytrvalost 6 hodin, pulsní doplerovský radar a výzbrojen byl 6 støelami vzduch-vzduch dalekého doletu Bendix XAAM-10 Eagle. Radarem øízená støela Eagle dosahoval rychlosti 4 M. Mohla nést konvenèní nebo jadernou hlavici. F6D se ukazoval jako pøíliš drahý, pøíliš specializovaný a pøíliš pomalý na to aby zajistil vlastní obranu po odpálení všech støel. Proto byl v prosinci 1960 projekt F6D a støel Eagle zastaven. (Quelle: http://www.military.cz/usa/air/in_service/aircraft/f111/f111hist.htm)
Ist in diesem Text was interessantes drin ? Mein Tschechisch war noch nie gut (hätte sich auch auf meiner Fîche schlecht gemacht...hehehe)...

- Originally, the Navy had planned to meet this FAD requirement with the Douglas F6D-1 Missileer. The F6D-1 was a subsonic aircraft that looked a lot like a scaled-up F3D Skyknight. It was to be powered by two 10,000 lb.s.t. Pratt & Whitney TF30-P-2 turbofans, and was to carry a three-man crew (pilot, co-pilot, and weapons system operator). 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 Eagle was a massive long-range air-to-air missile with a maximum speed of Mach 4. It was equipped with an advanced pulse-Doppler active radar homer. The warhead of the Eagle could be either conventional or nuclear.

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. Consequently, the F6D and its Eagle missiles were both cancelled in December of 1960 in the last waning days of the Eisenhower administration. This still left the FAD requirement unfulfilled.
(Quelle: http://members.tripod.com/~Wobert/f111a.html)

- auf http://www.plasticmodels.com/kpitem.asp?ItemCode=NF04 ist ein Buch darüber zu finden, auch das Bild hab ich von dort (Bild ist zwar ne Skyknight, aber im Büchlein sollte auch die Missileer vorkommen....):