the AN/APQ-120 radar on the F-4E phantom and all its other variants is missing the Pulse Doppler mode despite multiple online sources stating that it indeed was developed as a Pulse Doppler radar.
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and there exist others
missing the pilot RWR
what? it does have RWR
Yeah it aint PD
IRL it was
I said pilot not Copilot
AN/APQ-120 isn’t a Pulse-Doppler radar
It’s just Pulse
A common mistake
It was capable of filtering chaffs under VERY specific conditions by speedgating, but that’s not even MTI mode
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then why do multiple sources say pulse doppler? I’m just curious, not tryna sound offensive
Incorrect translations or just plain laziness, IDK. Maybe someone saw that NAVY F-4s had PD radars and thought that all later models also had them.
Here’s a thing about internet, don’t trust any info unless it has some actually good sources. Neither the USAF manual for the F-4E nor the actual radar control panel in the cockpit show any controls for a PD mode.
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It also have some limited ld/sd but thanks to the TISEO
not really limited
It is limited, the tiseo is still an electroptical system, the camera performance, weather and light conditions would limit it
no.
Well, it had the capability of filtering chaff/ ground clutter in CAA mode which was a mode inside ACM mode…
However , that’s not PD.
If for example they give the capability only in ACM mode , it will be the correct implementation.
That means we are talking about a TCTO 556 Phantom at the very least. Not all F-4Es had them.
It was implemented in all Rivet Haste Phantoms.