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A4sForever

A4sForever

BTDT OLD GUY
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Old R.O. said:
VF-301 F-4S on a low-level nav route over the Eastern California desert, circa 1983.
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F-4 fighter guys?? Ol' Smokey??? Low levels??? :icon_lol::icon_lol::icon_lol::icon_lol::icon_lol:

Isn't that kinda like saying "Jumbo Shrimp" ... :D
 
Catmando

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A4sForever said:
F-4 fighter guys?? Ol' Smokey??? Low levels??? :icon_lol::icon_lol::icon_lol::icon_lol::icon_lol:
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Believe it!!!! :)

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Catmando

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Flugelman said:
Did they ever really load rocket pods on a TER? I'm not questioning the veracity of the picture, just have never seen it. And it looks like the Scooter behind the F-4 got the hit on the bridge... (Ammunition for A4s :D)
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Yeah, I know I shouldn't have post that. It is fictionalized and unreal depiction. :(

We never carried rockets at the end of the war (because of earlier shipboard fires), and I doubt any ever carried the pods as depicted earlier in the war.

Also, no one flew that low over a heavily defended target and in such close proximity. The attack runs were 40 degree dives and pullout was supposed to be above small arms fire (3,500')…. although the egress was usually as low as you dared go, and fast.
 
A4sForever

A4sForever

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Catmando said:
1......never carried rockets at the end of the war (because of earlier shipboard fires), and I doubt any ever carried the pods as depicted earlier in the war.

2.... Also, no one flew that low over a heavily defended target and in such close proximity. The attack runs were 40 degree dives and pullout was supposed to be above small arms fire (3,500')…. although the egress was usually as low as you dared go, and fast.
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1. "We" carried 2.75 FFAR pods and I "think" they WERE loaded on TERs from time to time -- usually to save MERs for the "serious business" ... I had a whole 2.75 pod "go off" on me once w/ just one trigger squeeze -- the RADHAZ covering came off all cattywampus and tripped the SINGLE/RIPPLE switch to .... you guessed it: RIPPLE. Big surprise in the cockpit. :)

We also carried what I "think" (old memory banks) were Zuni pods stuffed w/ 4 parachute flares -- for "visual" work @ night. :eek:

2. Some guys did -- i.e., low level attacks against heavy defenses -- especially up & down Uncle Ho's Trail or single ship @ night ... and sometimes a "standard" day 40 degree dive turned into a 60 degree dive if you got real "excited" on the roll-in ... :D
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Flugelman

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Thanks, A4s. My interest in the TER loading stems from the fact that I worked as a draftsman for the company (Standard Mfg) that built the bomb loader that could load MERs and TERs. I did most of the drafting on the hydraulics in the articulated head and spent some quality time testing the thing at LTV/NAS Dallas in the very early 60's. Man, I would have loved to have had some AutoCAD stuff back then.
 
nittany03

nittany03

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Little known fact: Clown jets are wired to carry rockets. Chance of it ever happening in real life . . . unfortunately close to zero.
 
Harrier Dude

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squeeze said:
Maybe he's talking about the SUU-25F/A ... the dispenser. The LUU-2/19 is the flare itself. :)
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Congratulations, Mr Nit-picky. You've read about them now.

Ever dropped them?

I didn't think so.:D

Nobody ever says "I'm carrying an SUU-25F/A tonight".........just "I'm dropping LUU-2s".

They're practically obsolete now that we carry an AN/AAQ-28...........:D
 
Harrier Dude

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nittany03 said:
Little known fact: Clown jets are wired to carry rockets. Chance of it ever happening in real life . . . unfortunately close to zero.
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Rockets used to be an X in advanced in the TA-4J. They quit doing it about a year or so before I went through advanced. I think that the reason that they were stopped had more to do with a shortage of rockets than anything else, so that requirement for rockets was probably in the design proposal for the TA-4s replacement.

By the way, it's just a guess (and I'm not an ordie), but I'd bet that the Prowler is "wired for rockets" as well. You'd probably have to aim them with iron sights (or a grease pencil mark on the windscreen), but I don't think that there's anything cosmic about the pylon for rockets.

If you can fire off any other store, you can probably fire off a pod of rockets.
 
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