Sad to say it’s fairly unlikely at this point.
Though the F-4E might change in some way.
Non DMAS Blocks F-4E Should not have access to AGM-65 circa '72
Already formalized by internal report.
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this is in response to an early post here that said USAF F-4E never got 9M
this is a screenshot of 1990 updates to the USAF F-4E flight manual and it clearly lists AIM-9M
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because I recently got access to it, here is a screenshot from the 1995 updated manual that also shows 9m
and here is just the 9L/9M without other stuff
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are there radar improvements?
I dont think so, the radar itself was never replaced, maybe at some point there were upgrades
but there is very little information about the radar in any version of the flight manual that I have seen
I was wrong, while still technically the same radar, there were apparently significant enough modifications for it to be refereed to as different
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Hopefully it improves look down
IIRC the “improved” APQ-120(V)-10 & -11 introduced the Computer Automatic Acquisition (CAA) mode to the radar, and changed to a Digital Fire Control Computer which refined the calculation (for Later Sparrows and Sidewinders) of the “Launch Acceptability Region” & “Time To Go” for A2A missiles.
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