Comments by "Solo Renegade" (@SoloRenegade) on "Max Afterburner"
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The AIM9 is the first ever operational air to air missile, fitted to F-86 Sabers.
In Vietnam, the USAF F-4s scored;
32 kills with the AIM9
5 kills with the AIM4
50 kills with the AIM7
5 maneuver kills
15 kills with 20mm
not sure what the Navy got.
the F-4 was built as a fleet defense interceptor, and it was not standard to equip interceptors with guns at the time. But everything else had guns still, from the F-8, A-4, F-105, to the F-100, etc.
When the F-4 was designed, the Navy already had the F-8 and A-4, so it didn't want a multirole fighter that wasn't as good at either role as the dedicated aircraft, so they switched it to being an interceptor.
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