Republic F-84F Thunderstreak 19403/'FS-403' of the 401st Fighter-Bomber Wing, USAF,

F-84F-20-RE. Впервые прототип F-84F взлетел в июне 1950 года. Вариант F-84F поступил на вооружение 506-го авиакрыла стратегических истребителей Командования стратегической авиации в январе 1954 года. Менее чем через восемь месяцев Командование стратегической авиации США начало передавать F-84F частям авиации Национальной гвардии штата Пенсильвания. Эта машина принадлежала 103-й эскадрилье истребителей-перехватчиков.

Republic F-84F Thunderstreak DB-110 of 1 Staffel, JBG-32, Luftwaffe.

Западная Германия, вступившая в НАТО в 1955 году, начала интенсивно получать авиатехнику из США. Германия стала крупнейшим оператором F-84F за пределами США, получив около 450 самолетов в дополнение к F-86 Sabre.

Republic F-84FQ Thunderstreak of the Turkish 1st TAF, Eskisehir, 1970.

Republic F-84F Thunderstreak 28941/941 of the Turkish Air Force.

Republic F-84F Thunderstreak 36663/663 of the Hellenic Air Force.

Republic F-84F Thunderstreak 53-6612/'P-226' of 314 Squadron, Royal Netherlands Air Force.

This F-84F-45-RE, 52-6737, is seen in the distinctive yellow markings of the 92nd FBS, which was based at RAF Manston from March 1955 until the end of April 1958, at which time it joined the rest of the 81st FBW at RAF Bentwaters.

The first Republic F-84Fs for the 81st Fighter Bomber Wing, based at Bentwaters and Shepherds Grove, began arriving in October 1954. This Thunderstreak, 52-6449, was the mount of Lt Joe Williams of the 78th FBS, based at Shepherds Grove.

Lieutenant Joe Williams (left) poses with his crew chief at Shepherds Grove beside his Thunderstreak. “I was not overly fond of the F-84F or its mission. Going from fighter-interceptor to special missions was a big change for us all. But when you wear the uniform, you must go with the change. ”

Lieutenant Don Mikler and F-84F at Nouasseur in December 1955. The USAF in Europe (USAFE) used Nouasseur in Morocco and Wheelus in Libya for fair-weather weapons practice for all of its units.

Republic F-84F Thunderstreaks served mainly in the fighter-bomber role and were nuclear-capable. The type served with many front line and Air National Guard units before finally being retired by the Illinois and Ohio ANG in November 1971. This aircraft carries the markings of the 511th Fighter-Bomber Squadron, 405th Fighter-Bomber Wing based at Langley AFB.
Вооруженные самолетами F-84F подразделения Тактического авиационного командования были важнейшим элементом концепции "смешанной ударной авиационной группировки" (CASF), предусматривавшей быструю переброску дислоцированных на территории США эскадрилий в Европу в район конфликта. Данный F-84F принадлежал 405-му истребительно-бомбардировочному авиакрылу.

На протяжении 1950-х годов части ВВС США в Европе активно оснащались Thunderstreak со стреловидным крылом. Этот F-84F-50-RE служил в 91-й эскадрилье, базировавшейся в британском Бентуотерсе.
Lieutenant Harry Eckes of the 91st Fighter Bomber Squadron (FBS) en route to Nouasseur, Morocco, in F-84F 52-6852. The flight to the North African base covered a distance of more than 1,200 miles (1,930 km) and took about 2hr. Note the badge of the 81st FBW on the fuselage, and the individual squadron badge at the tip of the fin.

В рамках программы испытаний ракет класса "воздух-поверхность" Martin GAM-83 Bullpup несколько пусков проводились в ходе доводки предсерийной машины F-84F (51-1643) на авиабазе Эдвардс. Для подвески ракеты пришлось переделать подкрыльевой пилон.

Более 18 лет F-84F служили в 24 частях авиации Национальной гвардии в качестве перехватчиков (ограниченно), носителей ядерного оружия и тактических истребителей. Последние F-84F списывались из 170-й (НГ штата Иллинойс) и 164-й (НГ штата Огайо, на фотографии) тактических истребительных эскадрилий в последнем квартале 1972 года.

F-84F

F-84F «Тандерстрик» со стреловидным крылом, пришедший на смену «прямокрылым» F-84G весной 1955 г.

Самолеты F-84F пилотажной группы «Тандербердз»

Единственным подразделением САК ВВС США, получившим на вооружение GRB-36, стала 99-я стратегическая эскадрилья (авиабаза Фэйрчайлд, штат Вашингтон). На ее вооружении самолеты стояли менее года.

Republic F-84F состоял на вооружении в нескольких странах блока НАТО, включая Бельгию, Францию, Грецию, Италию, Нидерланды, Турцию и ФРГ. Первый из 180 самолетов был передан голландским ВВС в /955 году.

This Belgian Air Force Thunderstreak is one of 197 received by that country. The badge on the nose identifies this aircraft as belonging to 1 Fighter-Bomber Squadron, 2 Wing at Florennes Air Base. This unit flew the F-84F between 1955 and 1972.

F-84F ВВС Бельгии

Italy was one of seven European NATO nations, which flew the F-84F. These three Italian Air Force F-84Fs were assigned to 155° Gruppo, 50° Stormo.

The U.S.A.F. has recently introduced a revised system of identification markings for fighters and fighter/bombers. Formerly the lettering U.S. Air Force appeared on the fin and rudder above the serial number. As this photograph of a new production Republic F-84F-56-RE Thunderstreak shows, the lettering has been removed to the front fuselage and the last digit of the contract year (52-7010) has now been dropped from the tail serial. Similarly the "buzz number" (FS-010) formerly on the nose is now to the rear of the national insigne.

На фотографии хорошо видны отличия прямокрылого Thunderjet и Thunderstreak со стреловидным крылом. Конструкция YF-84F на 60% была аналогична конструкции F-84E, но на серийных F-84F стояли британские ТРД J65.

Истребитель F-84F "Тандерфлэш"

This Republic F-84F is equipped with tailhook arrester gear which is being evaluated by the U.S.A.F. It is claimed to be safer than the parachute braking drogue, eliminating skidding on wet and icy runways.

После 10-летней эксплуатации в частях первой линии ВВС США F-84F передали в авиацию Национальной гвардии, последние самолеты Национальной гвардии списали в 1971 году.

The Republic F-84F Thunderstreak followed the F-86 Sabre with the 81st in 1954. Depicted is F-84F-35-RE 52-6480 seen at Eglin AFB, Florida, prior to being allocated to a USAF unit.

Истребитель F-84F с бомбой Mk.7 под левым крылом.

Example of subsonic nose pitot intakes is provided by the F-84F Thunderstreak.

F-84F 52-6539 of the 79th FBS.

Истребитель F-84G. Хорошо виден пилон для подвески атомной бомбы.

Двум модифицированным F-84F присвоили обозначение YF-84J. Один оснастили двигателем General Electric XJ73-GE-5 тягой 39,30 кН, другой - двигателем XJ73-GE-7 тягой 40,10 кН. Из них летал только один самолет - 51-1708.

The Thunderstreaks of the 81st FBW were regular visitors to British airshows in the 1950s, 52-6718 of the 78th FBS being seen here alongside Boeing KB-29P 0-469716 of the 420th Air Refuelling Squadron - the O-designation was added to operational USAF aircraft serials (in this case 44-69716) to indicate they were more than ten years old.

F-84F, 52-6738, 55th FBS, this aircraft crashed at Nouasseur in August 1956.

F-84F 52-6738, 55th FBS, 20th FBW. The 'Special Weapons' pylon is under the port wing

Wearing both the 81st FBW’s badge on the fuselage and the lizard badge of the 78th FBS (nicknamed the “Bushmasters”) on the fin, Thunderstreak 52-6749 was photographed at Bentwaters Armed Forces Day in 1958. The sunburst markings on the fin and the panel on the nose were dark red.

F-84F 52-6752 of the 77th FBS, shrouded against the weather. This aircraft, in common with 52-6700, carried three bands of red on the tail and the fuselage

Lieutenant Don Mikler heads out for the range on one of the 81st’s many practice missions, in which the Wing’s Thunderstreaks would rehearse the prescribed techniques for toss-bombing and the Low-Altitude Bombing System (LABS), either of which could be used to deliver a nuclear weapon should the need arise.

The Thunderstreaks of the 81st FBW were occasionally fitted with jet-assisted take-off (JATO) rocket bottles to improve the type’s take-off performance when heavily laden. In this photo of 78th FBS Thunderstreak 52-6780 the aft ends of the JATO bottles may just be seen behind the tail-end of the wing-mounted fuel tank.

Thunderstreaks of the Bentwaters-based 91st FBS peel off for a series of publicity photographs in 1956. Republic was keen to extol the type’s virtues, the accompanying press release claiming that the F-84 “adds speed and atomic punch to the free world's air arsenal”.

“C” Flight of the 91st FBS flies a four-aircraft formation for a publicity shoot. Captain Jack Bowman leads the quartet, accompanied by Lieutenants Don Hanto, Jim Wilson and Harry Eckes. The blue lightning flashes on the fin were just one example of the variety of markings carried by the 91st FBS during the Thunderstreak period.

Самолеты F-84F пилотажной группы «Тандербердз»

YF-84F, изначально обозначавшийся YF-96A, запустили в серию как F-84F Thunderstreak. Данный вариант был способен нести бомбовую нагрузку в 2722 кг, включая атомную бомбу.
Republic F-84F with a selection of some of the loads it can carry externally up to a total of 6,000 lb. In addition to its normal fixed armament of six Colt-Browning M-3 machine-guns of .5-in. calibre, it has twenty-four 140-lb. 5-in. H.V.A.R. outboard of which are two 2,000-lb. bombs of an obsolescent type. The 1,000-lb. bombs at the end are more representive of jet carriage. The 230- or 450-U.S. gal. external tanks in the background can be used as napalm weapons.

F-105B "Тандерчиф" в одном ряду со своими предшественниками: F-84E "Тандерджет", KF-84F "Тандерфлэш" и F-84F "Тандерстрик"

Blair (centre) and his two wingmen, Capt Cesar Martinez (left) and Maj Robert Tomlinson, beside F-84F 51-1741 Excalibur IV before taking off on Operation Shark Bait in April 1956.

One of a number of "Buddy" refuelling systems now being developed in America is the one shown here fitted to a Republic F-84 Thunderstreak. Developed by the Republic Company it consists of two auxiliary wing tanks, one containing fuel and the other consisting of two compartments. The forward compartment of the latter contains fuel and the rear the refuelling mechanism. As can be seen, this is a short boom to which a length of hose and a drogue are attached. Fuel can be drawn from all tanks of the tanker rather than just that from the buddy tank alone.

A KP-29P equipped with a 'flying boom' suckles a Republic F-84F Thunderstreak.

Паразитный истребитель-разведчик RF-84F FICON. Из парка RF-84F, имевшихся в распоряжении ВВС США, 25 самолетов были переоборудованы в вариант RF-84K для авиационного комплекса FICON (Fighter CONveyor). В состав комплекса входил самолет-носитель, для роли которого был выбран Convair RB-36D (получил обозначение GRB-36D; на фотографии), и подвешиваемый к нему так называемый паразитный самолет (RF-84K). В бомбоотсеке устанавливалось Н-образное крепление, при помощи которого происходил сброс и прием RF-84K.
The desire on the part of some people to hang aeroplanes from things including cables, balloons, airships and other aeroplanes goes back to the very early years of powered flight. Shown here, is one of the last serious attempts made to do this by, of all people, the USAF, who actually deployed a limited number of Republic RF-84K-carrying Convair GRB-36Ds operationally from the end of 1956, through most of 1957. Shown here and taken in May 1953 is a view of the operational evaluation trials involving a Convair GRB-36F and a Republic YRF-84F. The intention with this particular combination was not to carry some form of fighter protection for the mother aircraft, but to extend the range of the Air Forces' photographic reconnaissance capability by using the mother ship to fly the fast RF-84 to within credible fuel range of what was to be photographed. The arrival in service of the fast, longer-ranged Douglas RB-66s must have come as a relief to those tasked with operating the by now extremely vulnerable GRB-36s.

The new Republic jet muffler for F-84Fs.

F-84s have been used in several American films to depict MiG-15s. This one will be used in a film called The Hunters.

Самолеты F-84F стояли на вооружении многих стран НАТО, включая Германию, Францию, Италию, Бельгию, Нидерланды (на фотографии), Грецию и Турцию. Шесть частей голландских ВВС, базировавшихся в Фолькеле и Эйндховене, насчитывали 180 таких самолетов.

ONE OF THE SKYBIRDS' team of four Republic F-84F Thunderstreaks from the Volkel A.F.B. which was narrowly beaten to first place in the aerobatic contest by the Hunters. This F-84F bears the serial 52-7191 / F-140 on the fin . A quartet of F-84G Thunderjets called "The Red Noses" also participated .

No 315 Tactical Fighter Squadron at Twenthe was the first KLu squadron to convert from the Republic F-84F Thunderstreak to the NF-5, and one of this unit's Thunderstreaks (53-6745) is seen here formating with one of the two-seat NF-5Bs (K-4010) of the conversion school in the summer of 1970 during the early stages on the conversion programme.

Two Republic F-84F Thunderstreaks of 4th Escadre de Chasse escort P-47D 44-33401 of EC 2/20 'Ouarsenis'. This aircraft was withdrawn from use on September 14, 1960.

Французские F-84F эскадр. 3/3 "Арденны". База Акротири, ноябрь 1956г.

During 1957-63 the company overhauled some 435 Republic F-84F Thunderstreaks for the Belgian and French A.F.s - latter illustrated

Republic F-84F Thunderflash FU-160/‘UR-V’ from 2 Wing/2 Squadron heads a line-up of four of the unit’s examples at its Florennes base in 1960. Some 197 F-84Fs served with the BAF, operating with 2 and 10 Wings, respectively at Florennes and Kleine-Brogel, while a further 34 RF-84F Thunderflashes were flown by 42 Squadron in the reconnaissance role, initially from RAF Wahn, Germany, and then Brustem.

Rarely seen in camouflage, this Republic F-84F Thunderstreak is one of the aircraft of the Belgian Air Force's 2nd Fighter-Bomber Wing based at Florennes, and photographed recently by Guy Denidder.

HOW LOW CAN YOU GET? NO 1 (pre-July 1980 only, please). Belgian AF F-84F at USAF Wethersfield, Essex, on April 8, 1964.

One of two gate guardians at Andravida, F-84F 37145.

Появление на ТВД даже небольшого количества греческих F-4E могло бы существенно изменить ход конфликта, однако в Афинах прекрасно осознавали, что в Вашингтоне и Брюсселе не допустят ослабления Турции, занимавшей важное стратегическое положение на южном фланге Варшавского договора и СССР. Именно поэтому в последний момент были отменены и боевые вылеты уже находившихся в боевой готовности F-84

F-86 и F-84 - основные самолеты люфтваффе в 1950-е гг.

Обе стороны располагали одинаковыми самолетами, в т.ч. разведчиками RF-84 и ударными F-84F

Attrition suffered by Republic F-84F Thunderstreak squadrons over the past dozen years has been made up, in part, by the delivery of ex-Luftwaffe aircraft referred to as F-84FQs.

The former Southend museum Republic Thunderstreak seen at Rochester where it is awaiting the attention of the preservation section of the Medway branch of the RAeS. The aircraft will be restored for the RAF Museum and on completion will probably be displayed at RAF Cosford.

The problem - Gil Leimbach’s F-84F after having sailed through the arresting barrier at Shepherds Grove in March 1955. The barriers at Bentwaters and “The Grove” both proved inadequate

The North East Aircraft Museum’s F-84F Thunderstreak at Sunderland on October 20, 1985.

A sad sight at Preveza military reserve airfield (which has now been renamed Aktion) in Greece during April 1996 were these Greek Air Force F-84F Thunderstreaks which, despite having been derelict in open storage for well over a decade, were declared under the CFE Treaty as front line fighter aircraft. Therefore, to comply with arms reductions under the provisions of the Treaty, all have been savagely hacked with a mechanical digger, destroying any chance of them even now being given to museums. A similar fate has befallen the many F-84Fs in store at Athens/Hellenikon.

F-84F Thunderstreak. Хотя истребитель F-84F никогда не считался чем-то выдающимся, достаточно много таких машин служило в ВВС ФРГ. С 1956 года были поставлены 450 самолетов, эксплуатировавшихся до 1969 года. Первой машины получила 50-я школа вооружения в Мюнхене, Фюрстенфельдбрюк. Позднее этим самолетом вооружили подразделения истребителей-бомбардировщиков. Изображенный самолет принадлежал 34-й истребительно-бомбардировочной эскадре в Меммингене. После списания из ВВС ФРГ ряд немецких F-84F передали в ВВС Греции и Турции.

F-84F Thunderstreak