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Would it in theory be possible to simply upgrade the F-4 to be capable of JDAM usage?

I see that Turkey and Greece still use upgraded F-4s. Greece version has the F/A-18 radar, it can use the AN/AAQ-28 Litening targeting pod and was upgraded to use AIM-120s and the entire family of the Paveway (I, II and III) laser-guided bombs.

But why not the JDAMs? 

I mean, the AN/AAQ-28 Litening targeting pod can read the GPC coordinates. My guess is that you just need a special pylon capable of writting/inputting the GPS coordinates and other parameters into the JDAM. And of course maybe a new chip, datalink or a software upgrade to process that data.

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1 hour ago, Stuart Galbraith said:

If you can update an A10 to use GPS guided bombs, then you can pretty much update anything.

 

And MiG-29 and Su-27. Su-25 and Su-30 MKI as well, if we include the AASM and Spice.

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