Quote Originally Posted by Jaco Smit View Post
The F4 Phantom, it's predecessor was a way more cooler jet, albeit originally designed for gun only dog fights.
The F4 was originally designed with only external hard points and did intercepts using A2A missiles like AIM-7 and AIM-9. They could load an external gun pod but rarely did. It's only after some losses in Vietnam that they started rolling out the upgraded phantom with an internal cannon and started the ACM school.