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Role	Fighter aircraft
National origin	United States
Manufacturer	North American Aviation
First flight	28 October 1954
Retired	December 1964
Primary users	United States Navy United States Marine Corps
Number built	374
Developed from	North American FJ-2/-3 Fury

The North American FJ-4 Fury is a swept-wing carrier-capable fighter-bomber for the United States Navy and Marine Corps. The final development in a lineage that included the Air Force's F-86 Sabre, the FJ-4 shared its general layout and engine with the earlier FJ-3, but featured an entirely new wing design and was a vastly different design in its final embodiment.

Compared to that of the FJ-3, the FJ-4's new wing was much thinner, with a six percent thickness-to-chord ratio, and featured skin panels milled from solid alloy plates. It also had an increased area, and tapered more sharply towards the tips. Slight camber behind the leading edge improved low speed characteristics. The main landing gear design had to be considerably modified to fold wheel and strut within the contours of the new wing. The track of the main wheels was increased and because they were closer to the center of gravity, there was less weight on the nosewheel. Wing folding was limited to the outer wing panels.

Variants

XFJ-4: Two prototypes with a J65-W-4 engine and re-designed fuselage.
YFJ-4: One FJ-4 used for development testing.
FJ-4 Fury: Single-seat fighter-bomber version, powered by a 7,700 lbf (34 kN) Wright J65-W-16A turbojet engine, 150 built.
FJ-4B Fury: Single-seat ground-attack close support version with six underwing pylons, 222 built.
FJ-4F Fury: Test and evaluation aircraft, fitted with an auxiliary rocket motor and supplementary fuel tank, two conversions from FJ-4.
F-1E Fury: Redesignation of the FJ-4.
AF-1E Fury: Redesignation of the FJ-4B.
AF-1F (NA-295): Proposed light-attack version with TF30 engine, competitor to the A-7; not built.

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North American FJ-4 Fury

General characteristics

Crew: 1
Length: 36 ft 4 in (11.1 m)
Wingspan: 39 ft 1 in (11.9 m)
Height: 13 ft 11 in (4.2 m)
Wing area: (31.46 m²)

Powerplant

Empty weight: (6,000 kg)
Gross weight: (9,200 kg)
Max takeoff weight: (10,750 kg)
Powerplant: 1 × Wright J65-W-16A turbojet, 7,700 lbf (34 kN) thrust

Specifications

Maximum speed: 680 mph (1,094 km/h, 590 kn) at sea level
Range: 2,020 mi (3,250 km, 1,760 nmi) with 2× 200 gal (760 L) drop tanks and 2× AIM-9 missiles
Service ceiling: (14,300 m)
Rate of climb: 7,660 ft/min

Armament

Guns: 4 × 20 mm (0.787 in) Colt Mk 12 cannon (144 rpg, 576 rounds in total)
Rockets: 6 × LAU-3/A 70mm rocket pods
Missiles: 4 × AIM-9 Sidewinder

or several other configurations of rocket pods

Bombs: 3,000 lb (1,400 kg) of underwing ordnance, including missiles

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Introduced in Update 1.79 "Project X", the FJ-4B is a solid multi-role aircraft which can fight air-to-air combat, ground-pound, or both. The fighter features four 20 mm autocannons.

NAA FJ-4 Fury

In the early 1950s, the US Navy realized during the Korean War that their straight-wing fighters were inferior to the swept-wing MiG-15s.

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The FJ-4 was intended as an all-weather interceptor, a role that required considerable range on internal fuel. The FJ-4 had 50% more fuel capacity.

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NAA FJ-4 Fury