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[SAS~Tom2]

I'm relatively sure all the F-4s had an RWR, but if you are interested I can ask a teammember buddy from the FreeFalcon team, he's a Naval aviator and his dad flew F-4s.


T.

[SAS~Anto]

Aboout Warning in teh cockpit, I am guessing that Way up to the 60{s teh onlly warning system were your own Eyes....
In Vietnam most SAM calls were made when visually cacthing a SAM taking off, specially in radar Saturated areas where RWR were going crazy...

In that era most pilots recognised the Sam threat right after the bang in the engine block ... but seriously most of it was eyeball stuff, you just hoped somebody saw what was coming up to alter your paint job and panicked accordingly ...

I thought the F4 Phantom had some sort of RWR in it, no idea about the Migs or anything else, or am I mistaken ?   

Some MiGs had them. Remember that the MiG-21 was designed as a point-defence interceptor and there wasn't a need for it to carry a RWR until Vietnam, in which they operated in an enemy-rich environment. Still trying to find out more about this system but like most Soviet avionics of the late 1950's/early 1960's, only sketchy info is available.

[ANDYTOTHED]

unfortunately, the rheinbote is a surface to surface rocket
(still love to see it in game though )

[SAS~Storebror]

The Rheinbote saw action as SSM and was developed as such in first stage, but Rheinmetall-Borsig was developing a SAM derivate of the Rheinbote, as the logical successor of the Rheintochter.

Best regards - Mike