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LostCosmonaut

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Interesting load out. 8 SDBs and a Lightening 2 Pod. I've also noticed a trend lately of AIM-120s on wingtip stations instead of AIM-9s.

One of the reasons I've seen for this is that in an engagement, it is expected that the 120s will be fired first at a longer range.  After they are gone, the F-16 would then (I suppose) have better dogfighting performance when it has closed the distance.  There could be other stuff going on as well though.

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US Marine Corps mechanics service a Royal Navy Hawker Sea Fury FB.11 (s/n WE790). According to the original caption this was a Royal Australian Navy aircraft. RAN 805 and 808 Squadrons operated from the aircraft carrier HMAS Sydney (R17) off Korea between 4 October 1951 and 27 January 1952. In the background is a Vought F4U-4 Corsair. Unusual is the lack of any tail code on either aircraft. Circa 1951. - Korean War in Color

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Hey neat! Never seen this before. a 6 gun experimental remote chin turret for the B-17G.

 

"Experimental 6-barrel tower remotely-controlled turret on b-17G, tail number 42-31435 SU-S, “WEST END” , flying in the composition of the 384 bomb group, U.S. air force, 1944."

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