F-84 Thunderjet | Wikipedia audio article
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Date: 2019-06-02

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00:03:19 1 Design and development
00:09:21 2 Operational history
00:16:17 2.1 Flying the Thunderjet
00:20:30 2.2 Korean War
00:22:57 2.3 Portuguese Overseas War
00:23:45 2.4 Notable achievements
00:27:01 2.5 Costs
00:27:19 3 Variants
00:27:29 3.1 Straight-wing variants
00:39:48 3.2 Swept-wing variants
00:41:01 4 Operators
00:44:39 4.1 Major USAF operational F-84 units
00:48:55 4.2 Royal Netherlands Air Force operational F-84 units
00:50:24 5 Aircraft on display
00:50:34 5.1 Croatia
00:50:51 5.2 Denmark
00:51:46 5.3 Netherlands
00:52:04 5.4 Norway
00:52:49 5.5 Portugal
00:53:15 5.6 Serbia
00:54:19 5.7 Slovenia
00:54:45 5.8 Thailand
00:55:05 5.9 Turkey
00:55:37 5.10 United States
00:59:21 6 Specifications (F-84G Thunderjet)
01:02:35 7 See also



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The Republic F-84 Thunderjet was an American turbojet fighter-bomber aircraft. Originating as a 1944 United States Army Air Forces (USAAF) proposal for a "day fighter", the F-84 first flew in 1946. Although it entered service in 1947, the Thunderjet was plagued by so many structural and engine problems that a 1948 U.S. Air Force review declared it unable to execute any aspect of its intended mission and considered canceling the program. The aircraft was not considered fully operational until the 1949 F-84D model and the design matured only with the definitive F-84G introduced in 1951. In 1954, the straight-wing Thunderjet was joined by the swept-wing F-84F Thunderstreak fighter and RF-84F Thunderflash photo reconnaissance aircraft.
The Thunderjet became the USAF's primary strike aircraft during the Korean War, flying 86,408 sorties and destroying 60% of all ground targets in the war as well as eight Soviet-built MiG fighters. Over half of the 7,524 F-84s produced served with NATO nations, and it was the first aircraft to fly with the U.S. Air Force Thunderbirds demonstration team. The USAF Strategic Air Command had F-84 Thunderjets in service from 1948 through 1957.
The F-84 was the first production fighter aircraft to utilize inflight refueling and the first fighter capable of carrying a nuclear weapon, the Mark 7 nuclear bomb. Modified F-84s were used in several unusual projects, including the FICON and Tom-Tom dockings to the B-29 Superfortress and B-36 bomber motherships, and the experimental XF-84H Thunderscreech turboprop.
The F-84 nomenclature can be somewhat confusing. The straight-wing F-84A to F-84E and F-84G models were called the Thunderjet. The F-84F Thunderstreak and RF-84F Thunderflash were different airplanes with swept wings. The XF-84H Thunderscreech (not its official name) was an experimental turboprop version of the F-84F. The F-84F swept wing version was intended to be a small variation of the normal Thunderjet with only a few different parts, so it kept the basic F-84 number. Production delays on the F-84F resulted in another order of the straight-wing version; this was the F-84G.