1/30/2024 0 Comments F4 phantom cockpit weapons officer![]() The weapon looked through a 'gate' some 2.4 mils wide and when properly boresighted would align with the pilot's gunsight 'pipper' (which was 1.4 mils wide). ![]() ![]() I liaised with Maj Jim Shaw about this c.1992 and he recalled that the weapon was called the "Egob" because EOGB was too much of a mouthful. Not sure if it has to be a TISEO F-4 otherwise you would still need to fit a TV screen in the rear pit.ĪFAIK specially-modified F-4Ds were the only droppers and the WSO used a 5-ins Sony TV fitted to the forward end of of the WSO's right-hand console (this being prior to the introduction of the digital scan converter which could present radar and E-O imagery on the one scope). This would suggest they used the camera in the bombs nose to aquire the target. After lock-on, the bomb was released and was guided by the seeker logic toward the target. When the TV screen's center "gate" was on a target of sufficiently high image contrast, the WSO could lock the seeker. The delivery aircraft's pilot and WSO (Weapon System Officer) had to manoeuver the aircraft to align the seeker with a target, while the WSO watched a TV screen with the camera's image. ![]() A HOBOS kit consisted of a nose section with the black&white TV camera and seeker electronics, strakes along the bomb body, and four cruciform tailfins with flying surfaces to control the EOGB (Electro-Optically Guided Bomb). The system, which became known as HOBOS (Homing Bomb System), was evaluated by F-4 Phantom units in combat in Vietnam in 1969. Air Force contract to develop an electro-optical guidance kit for the 2000 lb MK 84 bomb. ![]()
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