Convair F-106 Delta Dart Ideas and Inspiration

[GTX_Admin]

Hi folks,

A place for your Convair F-106 Delta Dart Ideas and Inspiration.



Regards,

Greg

[GTX_Admin]

To start with, how about an Israeli F-106?

Regards,

Greg

[Maverick]

I've done 20 profiles of the F-106 over the years, including 2 IDF examples.

Regads,

John

[GTX_Admin]

I've done 20 profiles of the F-106 over the years, including 2 IDF examples.

Regads,

John

Well, post them on the forum then.

[Silver Fox]

The AIR-2 Genie capability would make any such sale politically sensitive... but if the weapons bay could be modified to be non-Genie capable? Why not?
 
IIAF would make a nice bird (same issues as above), a precursor to the F-14 as an interceptor.
 
Of course, a CF-106 (powered by the PS-13 Iroquois) would be a natural. :)
 
The ultimate 'Six' might be found by adding diverterless intakes, putting a modern engine into the bay, upgrading the avionics/cockpit, adding a modern IRST system and fitting the weapons bay for AMRAAM. She wouldn't dogfight, but as an interceptor she would be as good today as she was in 1970.

[Maverick]

Here's the two Israeli examples along with one of the 'developed' variants suggested by Kendra:





Regards,

John

[GTX_Admin]

Nice John.

[GTX_Admin]

Some more real world inspiration perhaps:

Agressor Proposal:


ASAT trials:

[GTX_Admin]

A few more operator suggestions:

Taiwan
Japan
South Korea
West Germany

[elmayerle]

The F-106 Detail in Scale book has some nice info on proposed radar upgrades  Combine one of those with a modern IRST and an upgraded powerplant (either a later J75 variant or an Iroquois) and the "Porject Six-Shooter" package (frameless canopy and M61 installation) for a still formidable interceptor, especially if the four Falcon racks remaining were replace by two racks for cropped-fin AIM-120 variants.

[Silver Fox]

NJANG Six Shooter cockpit area with the frameless hood, IRST and front end of the M61 tub visible. Sorry for the grainy photo... air-to-air through a really dirty window. :) Atlantic coast off Atlantic City around 1986.

[Maverick]

Some more real world inspiration perhaps:
ASAT trials:

Looks more like a Standard ARM AGM-78 to me....

Anyhoo, German & Japanese F-106s (& there were Finnish, RAF, Canadian & French ones as well).





Regards,

John

[Silver Fox]

Hmmm....
 
Using Project Spike as a starting point, but going a different way... F-106 EW Aggressor. Twin-tub 106 with the fin EW installation of a Raven and the weapons bay converted to use the space for EW gear and a chaff dispenser. Basically a parallel to the process that created the EF-101 that Canada leased (101067). The pylons let you carry pods, tanks or chaff tanks.

[Frank3k]

I made this out of an old Arii 1/144 F-106:

[GTX_Admin]

Some more real world inspiration perhaps:
ASAT trials:

Looks more like a Standard ARM AGM-78 to me....

In the '70s trials were done using a modified two stage Standard missile as an ASAT weapon.

[Maverick]

Maybe they were, but that's still a 'standard'  length AGM-78.

Regards,

John

[elmayerle]

Maybe they were, but that's still a 'standard'  length AGM-78.

I agree, whatever the final ASAT version might have looked like, this is a single-stage air-launched Standard airframe.  It could have been from the Brazos/AAARM testing.

[Rafael]

I made this out of an old Arii 1/144 F-106:

That's sheer genius Frank :)

F-106 with Viggen wings and F-106X with same and canards

....and bubbletop canopy

Rafa

[GTX_Admin]

Another option might be a strike/ground attack version with the weapons bay used for bombs.

[elmayerle]

Another option might be a strike/ground attack version with the weapons bay used for bombs.

Or use the bomb-carrying drop tanks as used by the Mirage III and V.  I could see one aircraft mounting th designator while the other aircraft in a flight carried LGBs internally and/or externally.

[elmayerle]

One version I've not seen mentioned here, though it was an actual Convair proposal, is the high-valued staff transport capable of carrying four passengers plus the pilot.  It's written up in the latest eAPR.  I've got a Revellogram 1/48 F-106 earmarked for that, using seats from a 1/48 business jet.

[Maverick]

Another option might be a strike/ground attack version with the weapons bay used for bombs.

Or use the bomb-carrying drop tanks as used by the Mirage III and V.  I could see one aircraft mounting th designator while the other aircraft in a flight carried LGBs internally and/or externally.

Perhaps unsprisingly, I've done profiles of each:




Regards,

John

[Daryl J.]

The sound of the F-106 as it approached was music to my young ears back in the day.   We'd see them several times a week.  They were either 5th FIS out of Minot AFB or blue-shag carpet equipped MT-ANG 106's out of Great Falls.   

[finsrin]

Rafael is right on  ---  That's sheer genius Frank  :)

[GTX_Admin]

Oh yeah!