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Aircraft that make your jaw drop!

The absolutely massive speedbrake on the A-7.
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Abacinator said:
Because the B is a VTOL and the C is for carrier operation?
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The USAF required it, that Navy and Marines didn't. The gun may not have fit in the B due to the lift-fan and associated supporting equipment, or they wanted / needed to save weight in the B and C. The USAF may have added it as a ploy to strengthen the push to retire the A-10. "See, we can still shoot at the ground. We don't need the A-10."
 
it's called a kickflip you pleb :twofinger
 
Each of these began life as an F-5 airframe.

  • Upper left: F-5G / F-20
  • Upper right: X-29
  • Lower Left: Shaped Supersonic Boom Experiment: F-5E (ex-TOPGUN bird)
  • Lower right: Iranian Air Force Saeqeh
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berth said:
I wonder what those are on the middle hard points, between the external fuel tank and the iron bombs. Looks like 4 Sparrows (2 each rail) and whatever those "things that are dropped, but not generic iron bombs" are. Cluster munitions maybe?


Is that an F-105 in the background behind the sand bags?
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Might be SUU-30s., I see 6 AIM7s.

It might be a F-105 in the background. Good eye.
 
A-4C with two JATO bottles.
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