"Tom" wrote in message
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Don't know for sure...but I'm sure someone out here will tell us!
My guess is targeting....

Anyhow here's a crop and blowup of the device....

From the blowup, it does not look like dropable explosives, to me. Camera
to film the exercises? How about a housing for ALE-50 towed decoy
countermeasure pods?

It seems weird to mount a non stealth object on an external hard point on a
fairly stealthy plane. Since the B1-B's are known to carry the ALE-50
regularly, it seems odd to have it carried externally like that, I would
think.
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Jim in NC