I would be up for this, Gen 3 was in my eyes the last of the fighters that had "character", apart from the F-15, which is just a massive brute of an aircraft.
Andy

I'm, up for this one.

Bob

John, I am not sure what I will pick since I do not have one in the stash.

Bob

I'm interested but also confused.

I'd like to enter an F-105 however one source says it gen 2, another gen 3 and yet another gen 5 so which do we go by?

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I'm interested but also confused.

I'd like to enter an F-105 however one source says it gen 2, another gen 3 and yet another gen 5 so which do we go by?

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Well the 105 covers at least 2 of them if you go by the research dates, not sure how they are Gen 5 though?
Anything below an F is Gen 2, the F should be considered Gen 3, and the last version the G was definitely Gen 4, but the trouble with the 105 is that its not technically a fighter by that stage as its main mission capability was conventional bombing and Wild Weasel missions.
Andy

Well, not that I ever finish anything, but I've got at least 1 Phantom, an F-20 and an F-111B in the stash. and maybe even an Kfir (F-21).

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I'm interested but also confused.

I'd like to enter an F-105 however one source says it gen 2, another gen 3 and yet another gen 5 so which do we go by?

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Well the 105 covers at least 2 of them if you go by the research dates, not sure how they are Gen 5 though?
Anything below an F is Gen 2, the F should be considered Gen 3, and the last version the G was definitely Gen 4, but the trouble with the 105 is that its not technically a fighter by that stage as its main mission capability was conventional bombing and Wild Weasel missions.
Andy

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I'm interested but also confused.

I'd like to enter an F-105 however one source says it gen 2, another gen 3 and yet another gen 5 so which do we go by?

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Well the 105 covers at least 2 of them if you go by the research dates, not sure how they are Gen 5 though?
Anything below an F is Gen 2, the F should be considered Gen 3, and the last version the G was definitely Gen 4, but the trouble with the 105 is that its not technically a fighter by that stage as its main mission capability was conventional bombing and Wild Weasel missions.
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Surely you mean the D is Gen 3 as the F was the trainer version of the D although still fully combat capable. Although some F's were modified under the 'Commando Nail' and 'Combat Martin' projects to become semi wild weasels, some later being converted to full F-105G wild weasel III standard or do you refer to the EF-105F?

Not a fighter, surely you don't include the F-105F that took out three Mig21's, one with AAM, one with its cannon and the last with its bombs dropped directly into the flight path of the very surprised Mig.

You could argue that of the original list only the F-104S, Foxbat, Flagon, Finback and YF-12 are fighters but even most of them could carry bombs or do other missions.

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You could argue that of the original list only the F-104S, Foxbat, Flagon, Finback and YF-12 are fighters but even most of them could carry bombs or do other missions.

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Well out of all of those, only the Flagon should be considered a true fighter, as the proposed ground attack version was never built.
The YF-12 (of which three were built, a 4th ("YF-12C") was built using the front of a static airframe from one of the original three which got damaged during landing) was designed as an interceptor, whether it would have just retained that as its only ability we will never know.
The surviving airframes were loaned to NASA for research aircraft.
Blimey the list is short of true fighters .
Andy

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You could argue that of the original list only the F-104S, Foxbat, Flagon, Finback and YF-12 are fighters but even most of them could carry bombs or do other missions.

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Well out of all of those, only the Flagon should be considered a true fighter, as the proposed ground attack version was never built.
The YF-12 (of which three were built, a 4th ("YF-12C") was built using the front of a static airframe from one of the original three which got damaged during landing) was designed as an interceptor, whether it would have just retained that as its only ability we will never know.
The surviving airframes were loaned to NASA for research aircraft.
Blimey the list is short of true fighters .
Andy

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So the Gen 3 fighter build is now a Flagon build

So to be sure,
The pellet with the poison's in the flagon with the dragon; the vessel with the pestle has the brew that is true.

Do I have it right?

Count me in for this one!

Would a DOUGLAS SKYHAWK A-4B fit the rules?
I know, it's developed in the late 50's (like the SKYLANCER) but had it's main service in the 60's. So for me it shows the next step away from the 2nd Gen.; new short shape and especially designed for a/c-carriers ...
Thomas