VFA-82 - and F/A-18 vs. F-15

Guy Alcala wrote:



Those have been developed and are in service with the Swiss AF. Such a pylon loaded with an AMRAAM can be seen in the picture to which I provided the link below:

http://www.raf.mod.uk/news/images/nomad0403.jpg
I don't know whether the Finnish AF uses them as well, but it does seem likely.


Thanks for the picture. Quite a difference in size and (presumably) drag. One question -- does that look like the stock nose tow bar on the NLG?

Guy



You're welcome. The bar indeed looks a bit odd to me, but AFAIK it
wasn't uncommon for the bar to be removed on land-based export Hornets,
or to be replaced by something a little less beefy. The latter is
probably what we're looking at here.

Regards,
Ralph Savelsberg