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Mike Kanze wrote: Jacek, "personal pods" Referred to as "blivets" during my day (1969 - 1974). They were not as frequently used then as in later years, I understand. The "straight" (non-KA-6D) A-6 had enough space in the Etensible Equipment Platform (the "birdcage") for the crew's hanging bags of civvies and shaving kits. The T-2 had enough cube in the nose cone for 3 - 4 cases of Coors Beer, very popular in the Meridian, MS of the late 1960s when you couldn't buy it outside of Colorado. Of course those personal pods/ travel pods had their own, probably little-used, designation : MXU-somenumber Though not a naval aircraft (well, not quite anyway) on the F-111A and E it wasn't uncommon for aircrew to use the internal weapons bay to store their stuff. The AF doesn't travle light. Regards, Ralph Savelsberg |
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Yesterday I had a pleasure of having in my hands a book of MAG-31
Hornets of mid-1990s. That is really amazing what a beautiful mixed weapon configurations the Marine guys can attach to their F/A-18Ds!!! There I saw a Hornet in the following configuration: 2 x AIM-9 (wingtips) 1 x Walleye (port/outboard) 1 x data link pod (starboard/outboard) 1 x 330USGal. fuel tank (centerline) plus FLIR and LST/SCAM on the nacelles, both inboard pylons empty. As for the data link pods - www.globalsecurity.org or www.fas.org describe a little the whole series of them (AWW-7 thru AWW-14), but no pictures are included. Surely that is quite a common practice to use one aircraft to laser-designate the target or control the weapon via data link, whereas another is actually dropping/launching it - as far as Paveway/Laser Maverick or Walleye/SLAM are concerned. AGM-62 Walleye was retired, indeed, so the pods must be used now only for SLAM. The same as you, I have no reasonable idea why carry two of them;-) Have a nice day, Jacek |
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