Cold War Gone Hot Aircraft Questions

Hi Peter, glad you found the rules! sounds like a cool idea for a game.

Looks like you're right with the F-4G - no cannon there, you can just play it as having no cannon, and reduce the points value by 5 points.

The later F-4 variants are based on the CMANO database data (which I find very useful for a rough guide to radar ranges), it looks like all F-4Gs have the same radar range, of 111km, through the late 1970s to 1990. This translates to 24" in game terms (using the radar formula on page 134), although it's a bit odd that they have more range than an F-16...
The CMANO data only goes back to 1977, so I must have used actual Vietnam era radar ranges for the F-4s in the Vietnam and pre 1977 lists.

If you can find any info on radar ranges for F-4s in the 80s and 90s, I'd gladly incorporate the correct ranges into the rules.

I think for a mid-80s Red Storm Rising game, you could use the increased radar range of 24" for F-4s / F-4Gs, so they would look the same as the Gulf War list, sans the 20mm cannon for the F-4G


For the F-111, I can easily add it to the Gulf War list - I'd probably go for the following for mid 1980s F-111s - let me know what you think:


Hope that helps!