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BlackSheep
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- May 31, 2018
That first load out sounds like a video of "interesting" improvised arms out of the Ukraine, I've seen lately.. Wasn't the RPG warhead enough or did you really have to tape frags and 7.62 link on it for the extra oomph?Roger Freeman's Thunderbolt — A Documentary History of the Republic P-47 on pages 46-47 has some photos of ordnance loaded onto P-47s. One shows what seems to be a field modification allowing the carrying of twenty-four 20-lb frag bombs; another shows a 500-lb bomb with eight 20-lb frag bombs strapped to it.
Page 51 shows a combat test installation of four 5-inch HVAR rockets along with three 500-lb bombs; also shown is a P-47 equipped with a 150-gallon belly tank, two 500-lb bombs, and two M10 triple tube 4.5-inch rocket launchers.