"Dweezil Dwarftosser" wrote in message
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ALL fighter aircraft worked this way (for missiles, though
not for rockets in later machines).

Not sure what you mean here.

Interceptor rocket attacks had the firing signal coming from the weapons
computer when in the "full up" mode...but the AIM-9 was hot once the Master
Arm was armed. Press the pickle button and that puppy was gone, tone or no
tone, lock or no lock. In the 104, we used the trigger to fire the heaters.