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Zoukei-Mura F-4C Phantom II Wild Weasel IV In-box kit review
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As I write in January 2025, this new kit from Zoukei-Mura (ZM) is hot off the press and so I wanted to get stuck in to share with you all my initial thoughts. You may have seen my In-Box Browse recently published here where we take a video journey through the box and what’s on offer? If not you can see that here.
This kit is incredibly well detailed and having built the F-4E and F-4EJ Kai a few years back can confirm that these ZM F-4s are superb products. In this boxing you get the new sprues including new cockpit parts as well as stores for an F-4C Wild Weasel…
You’ll end up with plenty of spare parts, stores especially, that you can keep for use with other F-4 projects – always useful.
You get three options for finish in this F-4C release…
I haven’t yet decided which one to choose but you just have to love the box art: Version1: Super Cocks Swiss Samlar F-4C-24-MC 38 64-0840 Wild Weasel IV 388th TFW/67th TFS RTAFB Korat/Thailand November 1972. I am still trying to research the nose art Super Cocks etc and will update when I have found out more. It does look good though…
A bit of background on the F-4C
The F-4C used for Wild Weasel operations was unofficially designated EF-4C and is referred to in the following photo/caption.
(Photo: A U.S. Air Force McDonnell Douglas EF-4C Phantom II aircraft (s/n 63-7474) of the 67th Tactical Fighter Squadron, 18th Tactical Fighter Wing over North Vietnam in December 1972. It is armed with AGM-45 Shrike and AIM-7 Sparrow missiles and carries an AN/ALQ-72 ECM pod. The EF-4C “Wild Weasel IV” was a parallel development with the F-105G “Wild Weasel III” program. 36 aircraft F-4Cs were modified and fitted with AN/APR-25 Radar Homing and Warning System (RHAWS), AN/APR-26 SAM launch warning system, and ER-142 electronic countermeasures receiver. After the F-4G became available in the late 1970s these aircraft were flown as regular F-4Cs. Credit: U.S. Air Force 1972).