Weapon Load Outs

[GTX]

Hi folks,

Not so much a individual weapon per sae, but a thread for weapon load outs (this seemed the most appropriate area).  My prompting was a picture I saw in a presentation at the Australian Defence and Industry Conference during the week.  You may have seen this pic before:



Well, at the conference there was a picture of a RAAF F/A-18A+ with something similar.  In this case though it carried 6 AMRAAM + 6 ASRAAM.  Will try to find a copy of the picture.

Regards,

Greg

[Captain Canada]

Sweet pic ! Should have thrown away the fuel tank and put a couple more missiles there.....just in case !

[Ian the Kiwi Herder]

That's the 'Combat Persistance' loadout. Was an approved loading initially aimed at the CAF Hornets for (relatively) short range intercepts by their European based units - now that seems a L-o-n-g time ago doesn't it !!.

Ian

[Jschmus]

I seem to remember seeing a photo of a Finnish Hornet with a similar loadout.  I remember asking someone here about the twin-rail AAM launchers.

[Shasper]

There's a similar load out pic with an Echo Bug . . . I can't decide if it's impressive or laughable.


Shas

[pyro-manic]

Better have a tanker waiting for it at the end of the runway...

[Jschmus]

This is apparently not a whiff, but I am always on the lookout for interesting weapon loadouts.

http://www.aircraftresourcecenter.com/Gal10/9801-9900/gal9868-F-4-Obers/00.shtm



There are drop tanks on the outer wing pylons, TERs with Mk. 82s on the inners, with (scratchbuilt) Zunis on the Sidewinder racks.  Under the fuselage are some sort of odd pods (two).  Are they napalm, or cannon of some sort?

[Silver Fox]

That 'Combat Persistence' loadout first appeared on a CAF Hornet bailed-back to McAir for demonstrations to the Swiss. Canada didn't have AIM-120 at the time, just AIM-7s. We also lacked the twin-rail launchers required to make it work, best we could do is 6 Sparrow and 2 Sidewinder. Since the (recently completed) midlife update CF-18s can finally use a config first shown on one of our airframes!

[proditor]

For a minute I thought that Hornet was something from a Wingman novel.   

Or Macross....

[ChernayaAkula]

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Well, at the conference there was a picture of a RAAF F/A-18A+ with something similar.  In this case though it carried 6 AMRAAM + 6 ASRAAM.  Will try to find a copy of the picture.
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There you go, Greg!  



From THIS THREAD (aptly named "Impressive Weapons Loads 2") on Keypublishing foums.

Or this sexy shot!





Cool topic!  

Just a hoax by the armourers, but pretty cool nonetheless. And since this is Whif World... why not? Would have surely wrecked some unsuspecting NATO chopper driver's day should it have come to a war in central Europe.
Should I ever get round to building this Czech Hind, I'll also put Aphids on it. Maybe catch some JMN with it! Even though it's not physically possible to launch the Aphids, they were on the rails. With pictorial evidence. Oh, I can just about imagine the dumb looks.  



Found in THIS THREAD over on Keypublishing Forums.

<...> Under the fuselage are some sort of odd pods (two).  Are they napalm, or cannon of some sort?

Yeah, napalm.   Mk 77 fire bombs. Here's an actual pic of that very load-out:


From the first instalment of the Impressive Weapons Load thread >>HERE<< on Keypublishing forums.

[Ian the Kiwi Herder]

Also regarding Vietnam era USMC Phantoms: VMFA122 'Crusaders' were unique in flying their 'rhinos' with three 20mm Vulcan gunpods on short range CAS missions.

Ian

[dy031101]

Just a hoax by the armourers, but pretty cool nonetheless. And since this is Whif World... why not? Would have surely wrecked some unsuspecting NATO chopper driver's day should it have come to a war in central Europe.

Serbians have improvised a R-60 launch rail on their AA guns for added firepower, so...... why is it physically impossible for the Croc to launch the R-60 other than having to work out the wiring first?......

[ChernayaAkula]

Serbians have improvised a R-60 launch rail on their AA guns for added firepower, so...... why is it physically impossible for the Croc to launch the R-60 other than having to work out the wiring first?......

Because, as you said, they'd have to work out the wiring first. I only did say that the way the Hind sits there, at that very moment in time, it's not possible to launch the Aphids. Nowhere did I say that even with some tweaking it would have been impossible. Maybe I should have said it's physically impossible to launch the Aphids "currently, at the moment, without further mods, out-of-box, from a stock Hind, without having to specially wire it and weave the acoustic targeting cues into the Hind's gizmology, because it's not in the manual or the training syllabus, because they'd blow NATO choppers out of the sky by sheer awesomeness, because Marxist dialectic didn't envision dog-fighting helicopters at that point". That's better?

Actually, I think that would have been a very good idea. Had it come to a Soviet-NATO show-down in Central Europe, as both sides planned for, Soviet tank armies would have undoubtedly suffered a lot to NATO tank-killing helicopters. An AAM-armed Hind "fighter-sweep" might have been a sensible idea.

[Mossie]

I'll play!  Real stuff:

Tornado with seven ALARMs.  Not a likely load out, but I think it got approval
 

Another Tornado with two ALARM & twelve Brimstone


Vulcan with Skybolt, real but never went past the expirmental stage


Even a single Blue Steel is impressive...


Where as the load out on this is a load of....


Do you calss this as a load out?  B-150 with two F-84's on the wingtips.  Again real, but never went past the experimental stage after the trials ended in tradegy


Lightning with four Matra JL-100's & four Matra 155s.  If the microcell packs in the nose (an option instead of cannon) are loaded as well that's a total of 192 rockets!

[Mossie]

Whiffy stuff:


The Phase Six Vulcan would have carried four Skybolts


or three Gnats on a standard B.2!


Vigi interceptor with three engines & six AIM-54s


The Sukhoi T-4MS would have been capapble of carrying 24 Kh-15 missiles


Always thought the SABA didn't do too badly for such a light aircraft with six AAMs


Do you count this one as real or a whiff???  There's s pic so it must have happened...