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Seriously, how hard would it be for USAF, circa 1969, to procure some F-104S from Fiat in Turin ? The AMI bought 206 of them at slow pace: the production run stretched into 1979. The Turks also got some more, total 246.[URL unfurl="true"]http://www.airvectors.net/avf104_2.html#m4[/URL]I never quite understood how did the AMI put an AIM-7 Sparrow capability into the F-104 airframe ? Quite impressive. Plus they had a powerful J79 -19 in the back, to push them to at least Mach 2.35 (from memory). Most powerful Lawn Dart in the world.(Quite interesting to think the last Skyhawk, the last Phantom - outside Japan, 1981 - and the last Starfighter all rolled out their respective production lines the same year - 1979).
Seriously, how hard would it be for USAF, circa 1969, to procure some F-104S from Fiat in Turin ? The AMI bought 206 of them at slow pace: the production run stretched into 1979. The Turks also got some more, total 246.
[URL unfurl="true"]http://www.airvectors.net/avf104_2.html#m4[/URL]
I never quite understood how did the AMI put an AIM-7 Sparrow capability into the F-104 airframe ? Quite impressive. Plus they had a powerful J79 -19 in the back, to push them to at least Mach 2.35 (from memory). Most powerful Lawn Dart in the world.
(Quite interesting to think the last Skyhawk, the last Phantom - outside Japan, 1981 - and the last Starfighter all rolled out their respective production lines the same year - 1979).
