This role required extensive modifications to add a large radar to the nose of the aircraft, a second crew member to operate it, and a new weapons bay using a rotating door that held its four AIM-4 Falcon missiles or two AIR-2 Genie rockets hidden within the airframe until it was time to be fired.

This role required extensive modifications to add a large radar to the nose of the aircraft, a second crew member to operate it, and a new weapons bay using a rotating door that held its four AIM-4 Falcon missiles or two AIR-2 Genie rockets hidden within the airframe until it was time to be fired.

Jul 8, 2023 · The F-101B was stripped of the four M39 cannons and carried four AIM-4 Falcon air-air missiles instead, arranged two apiece on a rotating pallet in the fuselage weapons bay. Late-production examples were fitted for 2 AIR-2 Genie nuclear rockets (1.7kt yield) and 2 AIM-4.

Test animation of rotary weapons bay (AIM-4 and Genie missiles) for F-101 Voodoo project.

May 10, 2023 · Also new was a Hughes MG-13 tracking and fire control system, essentially an upgrade of the E-6 system already utilized in the F-89D, and a rotary weapons bay that held four Hughes Falcon semi-active radar (GAR-1) and infrared (GAR-2) missiles.

Jun 20, 2014 · Born as a long range escort fighter for U.S. Air Force Strategic Air Command (SAC) bombers, the McDonnell F-101 was developed in several versions. Both were involved in the Cuban Missile Crisis.

Oct 3, 2023 · The system was fielded with an arrangement of air-to-air missiles through a four-missile internal rotary weapons bay - initially consisting of 4 x AIM-4 Falcon air-to-air missiles (2 x AIM-4A semi-active radar-homing, 2 x AIM-4B infrared-guided).

Jul 13, 2024 · Moreover, instead of the four M39 cannons employed on the F-101A, the F-101B was armed with four AIM-4 Falcon air-to-air missiles arranged in pairs in a rotating pallet in the aircraft’s weapons bay.

This required extensive modifications to add a large radar to the nose of the aircraft, a second crewmember to operate it, and a new weapons bay using a rotating door that kept its four AIM-4 Falcon missiles or two AIR-2 Genie rockets hidden within the airframe until it was time to be fired.

* The McDonnell "F-101 Voodoo" was one of the US Air Force's first operational supersonic fighters. It served as a tactical nuclear strike aircraft, an interceptor, and in particular as a photo-reconnaissance platform, with considerable combat experience in the reconnaissance role during the Vietnam War.