Frankenplanes

That's screaming out for the tailplane from a Sea Vixen.

F-22 mixed with MiG 1.44

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I had a professor that worked on that

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cool, did he have any stories how bureaucracy fucked his project?

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Not really - he was just starting out as an engineer at that point. Besides, the F-4VS was really just an opportunistic attempt to capitalize on the failure of the F-111B. The F-14 was objectively a better choice.

He did end up working for Grumman afterwards. Among the big projects he was a part of were the X-29 and Grumman's ATF development.

>The F-14 was objectively a better choice
sounds about rigth

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why would this be built? why does it look so cool?

speaking of the F-4, there was a proposal by McD to make an improved model of the phantom, but was cancelled for money reasons.