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Ground Support Equipment is not forgotten 20 pages are showing all kinds of armament the Starfighter could carry, from missiles, rockets, bombs and dispensers to nukes... 160 pages with 875+ detailed colour pictures in total... and not to forget the 1 meter long fold out pages with very a...
Hasegawa's 1/48 scale F-104S Starfighteris available online from Squadron Introduction This is the very last year of service for the F-104, after more than one million flying hours over forty years the most representative fighter of the Italian Air force (AMI) is being phased out, so as ...
The Lockheed F-104 Starfighter was developed for the US Air Force as a supersonic interceptor. Entering service in 1958, it was the USAF's first fighter capable of speeds in excess of Mach 2. Though the F-104 set a multitude of airspeed and altitude records, it suffered from reliability ...
At first sight, Lockheed would seem to be an unlikely entrant into the ATF contest, and even less likely to have won. Lockheed had not built a successful fighter aircraft since the F-104 Starfighter of the mid-1950s. It is true that Lockheed had successfully integrated the first lookdown ...
Aeritalia F-104S Starfighter Japan F-1 T-2 Other aircraft can accept M61 in the SUU-16 or SUU-23 externally mounted As part of the Phalanx Close-in Weapon System (CIWS), it is in service on most US Navy ships and many ships of foreign navies ...
Cold War: Lockheed F-104 Starfighter By Kennedy Hickman Pleased with the program's results, theUS Air Forceissued a contract to Lockheed on November 1, 1978, for the design and production of a full-sized, stealth aircraft. Led by Skunk Works chief Ben Rich, with assistance from Bill Schroe...
3 Armaments 3.1 Offensive armament 3.2 Suspended armament 4 Usage in battles 4.1 Radars 4.2 Pros and cons 5 History 6 Media 7 See also 8 External links Description The ␗F-104A Starfighter , commonly known as the "星式戰鬥機" (literal translation of "Starfighter") or by its notorious ...
Being a member of the Starfighter family, the F-104S excels excellently at its main feature - speed and climb rate. As one of the earliest jets to hit Mach 2.0 at high altitude, the design doctrine called for the maximum climb rate and speed possible, resulting in the pencil-like ...
3 Armaments 3.1 Offensive armament 3.2 Suspended armament 4 Usage in battles 4.1 Modules 4.2 Pros and cons 5 History 6 Media 7 See also 8 External links 8.1 References This page is about the jet fighter F-104A. For other versions, see F-104 Starfighter (Family). Description The F-104...