Pictures of Cold War aircraft. (12 Viewers)

[hw97karbine]

Looking at the flash hider, odds are strong this could be a M16 (firts adopted by the USAF in 1964 without the bolt assist), not a M16A1.

Good eye and it would make sense for a USAF machine. Incidentally here is some relevant footage:


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[syscom3]

A memorial service held at the Saigon's Tân Sơn Nhứt airport flight line on Thursday, April 22, 1965 for 10 U.S. Army men killed in Bình Định Province on
April 19 and 20 and for an American civilian killed on Monday, April 19, in a Việt Cộng ambush on Saigon highway.

 

[special ed]

M16A1 door gun on a Cessna O-1 Bird Dog over Vietnam

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That is the pilot with the M.16 and rear seat guy has the stick. One could actually fire from the smaller rear seat windows without danger of hitting the strut.

 

[Donivanp]

That is the pilot with the M.16 and rear seat guy has the stick. One could actually fire from the smaller rear seat windows without danger of hitting the strut.

Boy I need my eyes checked. I must be dyslectic, I read M61 instead of M16

 

[Thumpalumpacus]

Boy I need my eyes checked. I must be dyslectic, I read M61 instead of M16

That recoil would be a bitch!

 

[Donivanp]

That recoil would be a bitch!

Especially in an O1 or O2

 

[Thumpalumpacus]

Especially in an O1 or O2

More especially on your shoulder.

 

[Donivanp]

More especially on your shoulder.

Yeah well that to

 

[Sabrejet]

I must be dyslectic,...

Very good: too subtle!!!

 

[hw97karbine]

F-4G Wild Weasel loaded for bear over China Lake in 1981

AGM-45 and AGM-78 under the starboard wing, AGM-88 and AGM-65 under the port wing

 

[Donivanp]

F-4G Wild Weasel loaded for bear over China Lake in 1981

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AGM-45 and AGM-78 under the starboard wing, AGM-88 and AGM-65 under the port wing

And while not see would normally carry two AIM7 in the aft sparrow wells as well as possibly one forward. She still carried an air to air bite.

 

[hw97karbine]

She still carried an air to air bite.

If an enemy aircraft is equipped with radar then it's still within the Wild Weasel's remit

 

[Donivanp]

If an enemy aircraft is equipped with radar then it's still within the Wild Weasel's remit

Enemy my A$$, as the story be told, one took out the tail gun of a B-52G during the gulf war. As the story be told….

 

[GTX]

Enemy my A$$, as the story be told, one took out the tail gun of a B-52G during the gulf war. As the story be told….

Yep:

That Time A F-4G Wild Weasel's Anti-Radiation Missile Blew Apart A B-52's Tail

The freak friendly fire incident during Desert Storm that was almost fatal for a B-52 crew.

www.twz.com

 

[Donivanp]

Yep:

That Time A F-4G Wild Weasel's Anti-Radiation Missile Blew Apart A B-52's Tail

The freak friendly fire incident during Desert Storm that was almost fatal for a B-52 crew.

www.twz.com

As the story be told!!!!!!!!

 

[GTX]

 

[syscom3]

United States Air Force pilots of the 91st Tactical Fighter Squadron riding around on a London taxi at RAF Bentwaters, near
Woodbridge, Suffolk, England, 23rd April 1965

 

[syscom3]

TIME Magazine, April 23, 1965.

 

[syscom3]

a U.S. Air Force SR-71 strategic reconnaissance aircraft parked on a flight line, 23 April 1985.

 

[tyrodtom]

That recoil would be a bitch!

I've fired a M-16 a bunch, bad recoil isn't one of it's traits. About the only service rifle of it's era that had softer recoil might be the M1 Carbine.