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F-102A Delta Dagger 31802, 16 FIS, Naha AFB, Okinawa, late 1950s
General Background
The Convair F-102 Delta Dagger was designed to be an interceptor aircraft and act as the core of USAF air defenses in the late 1950s. The F-102 first appeared in service in 1956 with the task to intercept Soviet bombers. The official name for the F-102 was “Delta Dagger” but the most common term used was “Deuce”. There was 889 F-102As manufactured when production ended in September 1958.
The Aircraft
31802 was a modified JF-102A and sent to the Wright Air Development Center. In 1955/56 the aircraft spent the winter at Ladd AFB, Alaska as the Cold Weather Test airframe. Beginning in 1959 until 1965 the 16th FIS was stationed at Naha AB, on Okinawa. It was in 1959 that F-102A 31802 joined the 16th FIS before heading to the 317th FIS, the 509th FIS, Idaho ANG 190th FIS and storage in 1971. In February 1977 the aircraft was scrapped.
Specifications :
| Role : | Supersonic All-Weather, delta wing interceptor |
| Crew: | 1 pilot |
| Number Produced : | 889 |
| Dimensions | |
| Length : | 68 ft 4 in (20.83 |
| Wingspan : | 38 ft 1 in (11.61 m) |
| Height : | 21 ft 2 in (6.45 m) |
| Weight | |
| Empty : | 19,350 lb 8,777 kg) |
| Loaded : | 24,500 lb (11,100 kg) |
| Maximum Takeoff : | 31,500 lb (14,300 kg) |
| Powerplant : | 1 x Pratt & Whitney J57-P-25 afterburning turbojet |
| Thrust | |
| Dry : | 11,700 lbf (8,777 kg) |
| With Afterburner : | 17,200 lbf (76.5 kN) |
| Fuel | |
| Internal : | 1.085 US gal (4,107 l) |
| External : | 2 x 215 US gal (815 l) drop tanks |
| Armament: | |
| Rockets : | 24 x 2.75 in (70 mm) FFAR (Folding Fin Aerial Rocket) unguided rockets in missile bay doors |
| Missiles : | AIM-4 Falcon air-to-air |
| AIM-26 Falcon with conventional or nuclear warhead | |
| Missiles were contained in 3 bays inside the aircraft belly | |
| Avionics : | MG-10 fire control system designed by Hughes Aircraft Company |