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In article , Fred J. McCall
wrote:

:I imagine that this question could be answered by whether or not they ever
:trained for it in the 1970s and 1980s. My suspicion is that they never
:trained for carrying more than six AIM-54s.

Well, I'd hope so, since the airplane couldn't carry more than 6
AIM-54s, which WAS a full load.

My glitch. I meant four, not six.


I doubt they'd train for 6 going off a boat, since they'd have to
jettison two of them to get back onto the boat (and NAVAIR probably
would get a bit hacked at folks throwing million dollar missiles in
the drink for TRAINING).

Yeah, but there's ways to train without taking the full load of missiles,
right? They run an op that assumes that there are six. Did anybody train
for that?



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