Hello everyone, new to the forum and first post, so please be gentle!
I'm looking for good quality pictures of the VTAS kit fitted to the F-4J/N/S, and the ARN-101 cockpit equipment fitted to the F-4E and RF-4C. I always understood that the 'Arnie' mods were only fitted to USAF jets and possibly some Israeli F-4E's but, some recent images I've found of ROKAF F-4E's seem to show the doghouse antenna on the spine, if anyone can help I'd be grateful...
Best regards, Daz
ARN-101 was an intertial nav system, no external antennas. I don't really remember there being anything in the front seat specifically for the ARN-101. I think everything was in the back seat. The only thing the pilot could really do up front was switch between reference inputs on the flight instruments i.e. between INS and ARBCS.
ejiran, the ARN-101 did have (at least one) external antenna, as I already mentioned, it was on the spine inbetween the TACAN and UHF antennas, nicknamed or referred to as a 'doghouse' antenna. I would post an image but for some unfathomable reason the forum won't let me post images in the replies to to topics...
-Daz
Dazza44, I worked on the ARN-101 system on USAF F-4E/Gs, it had no external antennas. It was an Inertial Navigation System, hence no external radio nav reference signals. It may be possible that if you think the ROK AF had ARN-101 on their F-4s, that they may have had a GPS interface in later years. I wouldn't know about that; but I DO know the F-4s I worked on did not have an antenna for ARN-101.
Eric
I was one of the lucky ones that worked on this system in flight test at Eglin AFB. I was involved with the installation and all of the pre production hardware and software updates. After it went into production I got out and went to work for Lear Siegler, the manufacturer of the ARN 101, as a field rep for the installation sites putting Arnie into the F4-Es. There are no external antennas associated with the ARN 101. It is a totally self contained inertial navigation system. A "Dog House antenna" does not identify an aircraft with this INS installed.