Awesome news! BST have revealed they are creating a DMAS ARN-101 F-4E Phantom II.

belsimtek.com/news/1787/

The AGM-45 Shrike was an inadequate missile when it was first developed at China Lake in the 60's. It had short range, slow speed and was limited to specific radar frequencies by it's seeker. You had to know exactly what radars you would be engaging before takeoff and if you ran up against any unexpected threats the missile could not see it. It was at least something to use to suppress enemy SAM's that helped to get in to use cannon, iron bombs/CBU's/Napalm to destroy the site.

The F-4E we will be getting is a DMAS/ARN-101 upgraded aircraft. It is a fighter/bomber with precision navigation equipment that improved its air to ground bombing prowess. It is not a Wild Weasel. A Wild Weasel is an aircraft modified under Project Weasel with sensors and systems to specifically target enemy SAM's. The F-4E does not have these sensors or systems. As for SEAD/DEAD the F-4E Phantom II is capable of performing the mission but it will be a lot more hazardous without an F-4G Wild Weasel V to locate and suppress the SAM radars. When they were operational, the F-4E's were paired with the F-4G Wild Weasel V aircraft in hunter/killer teams. The F-4G was the hunter and the F-4E was the killer. Usually the F-4G would be armed with AGM-78 Standard ARM, AGM-88 HARM, AGM-45 Shrike or AGM-65 Maverick to locate/suppress the radars and the F-4E fighter/bombers would dive in and finish the site off with Maverick's, Iron Bombs/CBU's and cannon fire.

The DMAS/ARN-101 F-4E's were operational from about 1982 to about 1992... late Cold War like the MiG-21Bis, UH-1H, Mi-8MTv2 and F-5E we have in game. other upcoming aircraft announced to be in development from the period are the Mi-24P Hind and F-14A Tomcat. It is one of my favorite time periods for combat aviation.

That was RAZBAM teasing the F-105G Wild Weasel III a few years ago.

The SA-2 Guideline was still a viable system for third world countries even up until the 1990's. It was responsible for shooting down an F-15E in 1991 and some countries still use the system.

As I understand it, you have to set up the switcholigy to fire the AGM-45 Shrike and then turn the aircraft using the ADI to line up the shot. When the ADI reaches zero you are lined up and can take the shot. No range information is given though only azimuth (Wild Weasel capability the F-4E doesn't have) so you have to know exactly how far the SAM site is from your aircraft for the missile to reach it's target. Usually the SAM's will be firing at you before you are in range so you should know exactly where they are. I believe there are two modes used to fire the Shrike, Direct fire and Loft. Loft will give you a little more range but it is still not very good.
That is exactly what it is. GBU-15, Pave Tack + LGB's, Mavericks and Iron Bombs/CBU's. The DMAS upgrade added a primitive CCIP mode to the gunsight which will help a lot with bombing... vice the manual mode the F-5E has currently (F-4E also has manual mode as a backup on the gunsight). I'd expect the F-4E to hold its own against a Flogger as well.

The DMAS ARN-101 birds had PAVE Spike and PAVE Knife capability removed to be able to use the PAVE Tack. The Vanilla F-4E's still in service at the same time as the DMAS ARN-101 jets maintained PAVE Spike capability until their removal from service in 1993.

Looks like BST are taking a page out of the Razbam PR handbook with their F-4E.

forums.eagle.ru/showthread.php?p=3278678#post3278678

I've always wondered how that works, are they just big RC planes when you were done with them?