Impressive Weapons Load 2 (again)

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Who knows the stripes might be yellow indicating a live Mark 7 device... I'm sure they have done some testing with live weapons esp. in the 50s.

A-4 and Mk 7? Video for your enjoyment!

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The bomb in the video in post #1127 looks just like the bomb in the photo in post #1117.

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Not technically a 'load' but 48 B61s in one hangar seems a lot of firepower.

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Brunswick, Me. (Sep. 19, 2002) -- A P-3C “Orion” attached to the “Tigers” of Patrol Squadron Eight (VP-8) heads to a bombing exercise loaded with MK-20 “Rockeye” cluster bombs. MK-20 cluster bombs deliver 247 bomblets, which, upon detonation, release a jet of super heated and pressurized gas, which can penetrate 10 inches of steel and 31 inches of reinforced concrete. The P-3C is a land-based, long-range, anti-submarine warfare (ASW) patrol aircraft. The weapon’s dispersion area is roughly the size of a football field. U.S. Navy photo by Photographer’s Mate Airman Shannon Smith. (RELEASED)

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Are those side fuselage hardpoints on the Ching-Kuo a new thing? I don't recall ever seeing anything under the fuselage except for a pair of TC-2s or a drop tank.

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I had never seen it before, Harrier GR.Mk.3 and AGM-45 Shrike

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I know the maximum number of Hellfires carried by helicopters is 16, 4 lots of 4 but does anybody have any pictures of greater Hellfire loads?

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I had never seen it before, Harrier GR.Mk.3 and AGM-45 Shrike

Since changing the wiring to use different stores on GR3s took a looooong time (some kind Universal Weapon Bus or even just a switchable one was a distant pipe dream during most of the GR3's operational history) I'd guess that was either fitters having a laugh or some rush job trial for the Falklands Conflict.

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Aeroplane RAF Centenary Special Issue said that one GR.Mk.3 onboard the HMS Hermes have that capability in 1982...

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Whoa, that's a revealing feature!

So, if that capability was present during the Falklands conflict; is there any possibility the RAF have operationally used the shrike from the Harrier?

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First test flight was 3rd June back in UK. It was then parachuted to the task group. The first round as being assembled the day of the surrender.