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A Tentative Fleet Plan said:
I know what a TJ60 is, I was under the impression that it was more powerful still than the J93 and J58, which would probably already provide a significant jump in performance over the original J79.
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Spot the (scaled) after the engine? The TJ60D5A2 designation? That means it was a study using a scaled-down TJ60 to fit a Phantom. It was a Mach 3 engine design, so presumably this was intended to improve high speed performance.
 
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overscan (PaulMM) said:
From a huge list of F-4 models in http://www.secretprojects.co.uk/ebooks/McDonnell Model Numbers List.pdf a few interesting ones.


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98CN F-4H/ADC Phantom IIG Advanced Interceptor with AN/ASG-18 - wing and tail area inceased 20%, longer fuselage, two primary GAR-9, one alternate GAR-9, J93-MJ 252F engines. b) a 4 GAR-9 variant. (1960)
98CP Phantom IIF, as above with J58 engines (1960)
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That would be one heck of a fun ride! Not entirely sure how they'd enlarge the engine bays from ~40" to 50" diameter, though...


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Thought that comes to mind about the high wing VG design: that's completely scrapping the existing wing box and most of the lower fuselage. Not sure how much tooling you'd be able to reuse.
 

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