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Good shots guys!
Glider
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This is a great shot it must be said but I am intrigued by the what look like rocket pods she is armed with. I think the RAF stopped using those in the 1980's and to have such an old fashioned weapon on a high end aircraft as opposed to a GA aircraft I find interesting.
I could be very wrong on this but would appreciate peoples views on this
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... they look familial with the pods SOVIET ground attack helicopters mount ... they do not look like air-to-air weapoms, IMO
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Apologies I wasn't clear. I am confident they are GA rockets but I wasn't expecting to see them on such an aircraft as I cannot remember when the RAF last used SNEB rockets. Late 1980's is my guess.
Besides the pods...did you ever see such clunky looking mounting racks? Drag queens!
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AFT: The aircraft carrier USS Nimitz (CVN 68) steams in the Indian Ocean, Jan. 6, 2020. (Mass Communication Specialist Seaman Drace Wilson/Navy)
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QUESTION GLIDER
"..the RAF last used SNEB rockets. Late 1980's is my guess. "
What munition replaced them ..? Did the RAF 'mission' change..?
The Soviets favor/ed mass rocket attacks across broad fronts on the ground ... and Katusha weapony was/is effective. The PLAAF takes it's play book very much from Russia .. 'Older Big Brother'
I could well imagine those jets sweeping ahead of tank abreast formations and blasting their rockets before popping up and away.
If you're cadres sitting in the stands it's one hell of a show ....
"..the RAF last used SNEB rockets. Late 1980's is my guess. "
What munition replaced them ..? Did the RAF 'mission' change..?
The Soviets favor/ed mass rocket attacks across broad fronts on the ground ... and Katusha weapony was/is effective. The PLAAF takes it's play book very much from Russia .. 'Older Big Brother'
I could well imagine those jets sweeping ahead of tank abreast formations and blasting their rockets before popping up and away.
If you're cadres sitting in the stands it's one hell of a show ....
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AFT: A U.S. Marine Corps F-35B Lightning II approaches a U.S. Air Force KC-135 Stratotanker for an in-air refueling mission supporting Operation Octave Quartz with armed over-watch in Africa, Jan. 1, 2020. (Master Sgt. Joey Swafford/Air Force
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An F/A-18F Super Hornet jet flies over the USS Gerald R. Ford in the Atlantic Ocean in July 2017. | U.S. NAVY / VIA REUTERS
U.S. Navy's priciest carrier ever struggles to get jets on and off deck
Ah, the "beloved" bolt on, boom mounted KC135 refuelling drogue! I've read many an epithet- laden account of the joys of plugging that beast (NOT!).
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Hmm. Not YAK-3's .......... maybe a prototype ..............
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Army Spcs. Timothy Martin, left, and Shane Flores, middle, and Cpl. Dario Martinez prepare for a detonation during training in Boise, Idaho. (Thomas Alvarez/Army)
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Members of the National Guard arrive at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 12, 2021, in Washington. (Tasos Katopodis/Getty Images)
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