Can you help me to identify what these are on an F-18?
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Have you ever heard of Aviation Leak? I mean Aviation Week.
some pics for ya. the Super Hornet’s six-barrel 20mm, Externally Powered M61A2 Gatling Gun System, which can fire 4000-6000 shots/ minute. Made by the US military systems giant General Dynamics, the gun carries only about 600 rounds though.
The missile defense antennas for 360 degree threat coverage.
the earlier " bird splitter" antennas now being replaced by the APX -111 CIT and the new conformal IFF antenna. See link. http://www.baesystems.com/download/B...y-of-products/
Cool video.
http://warnewsupdates.blogspot.com/2...er-hornet.html
some pics for ya. the Super Hornet’s six-barrel 20mm, Externally Powered M61A2 Gatling Gun System, which can fire 4000-6000 shots/ minute. Made by the US military systems giant General Dynamics, the gun carries only about 600 rounds though.
The missile defense antennas for 360 degree threat coverage.
the earlier " bird splitter" antennas now being replaced by the APX -111 CIT and the new conformal IFF antenna. See link. http://www.baesystems.com/download/B...y-of-products/
Cool video.
http://warnewsupdates.blogspot.com/2...er-hornet.html
Last edited by FireBee; 04-18-2014 at 05:26 PM.
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[h=2]With a little research I could find this info:
Specifications (F/A-18C/D)[edit][/h]
Data from U.S. Navy fact file,[SUP][110][/SUP] Frawley Directory,[SUP][111][/SUP] Great Book[SUP][112][/SUP]
General characteristics
Specifications (F/A-18C/D)[edit][/h]
Data from U.S. Navy fact file,[SUP][110][/SUP] Frawley Directory,[SUP][111][/SUP] Great Book[SUP][112][/SUP]
General characteristics
- Crew: F/A-18C: 1, F/A-18D: 2 (pilot and weapons system officer)
- Length: 56 ft (17.1 m)
- Wingspan: 40 ft (12.3 m)
- Height: 15 ft 4 in (4.7 m)
- Wing area: 400 ft² (38 m²)
- Airfoil: NACA 65A005 mod root, 65A003.5 mod tip
- Empty weight: 23,000 lb (10,400 kg)
- Loaded weight: 36,970 lb (16,770 kg)
- Max. takeoff weight: 51,900 lb (23,500 kg)
- Powerplant: 2 × General Electric F404-GE-402 turbofans
- Dry thrust: 11,000 lbf (48.9 kN) each
- Thrust with afterburner: 17,750 lbf (79.2 kN) each
- Fuel capacity: 10,860 lb (4,926 kg) internally[SUP][113][/SUP]
- Maximum speed:
- Range: 1,089 nmi (1,250 miles, 2,000 km) with only two AIM-9s
- Combat radius: 400 nmi (460 mi, 740 km) on air-air mission
- Ferry range: 1,800 nmi (2,070 mi, 3,330 km)
- Service ceiling: 50,000 ft (15,240 m)
- Rate of climb: 50,000 ft/min (254 m/s)
- Wing loading: 93 lb/ft² (454 kg/m²)
- Thrust/weight: 0.96 (1.13 with loaded weight & 50% internal fuel)
- Guns: 1× 20 mm (0.787 in) M61 Vulcan nose mounted 6-barreled Gatling cannon, 578 rounds
- Hardpoints: 9 total: 2× wingtips missile launch rail, 4× under-wing, and 3× under-fuselage with a capacity of 13,700 lb (6,215 kg) external fuel and ordnance
- Rockets: **2.75 inches (70 mm) Hydra 70 rockets
- 5 in (127.0 mm) Zuni rockets
- Missiles: **Air-to-air missiles:
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- 4× AIM-9 Sidewinder or 4× AIM-132 ASRAAM or 4× IRIS-T or 4× AIM-120 AMRAAM and
- 2× AIM-7 Sparrow or 2× AIM-120 AMRAAM
- Air-to-surface missiles:
- AGM-65 Maverick
- AGM-84H/K Standoff Land Attack Missile Expanded Range (SLAM-ER)
- AGM-88 HARM Anti-radiation missile (ARM)
- AGM-154 Joint Standoff Weapon (JSOW)
- AGM-158 Joint Air-to-Surface Standoff Missile (JASSM)
- Taurus missile (Cruise missile)
- Anti-ship missile:
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- Bombs: **B61 nuclear bomb[SUP][115][/SUP]
- JDAM precision-guided munition (PGMs)
- Paveway series of laser-guided bombs
- Mk 80 series of unguided iron bombs
- CBU-87 cluster
- CBU-89 GATOR mine
- CBU-97 Sensor Fuzed Weapon
- Mk 20 Rockeye II
- Others:
- SUU-42A/A Flares/Infrared decoys dispenser pod and chaff pod or
- Electronic countermeasures (ECM) pod or
- AN/AAS-38 Nite Hawk Targeting pods (US Navy only), to be replaced by AN/ASQ-228 ATFLIR or
- LITENING targeting pod (USMC, Royal Australian Air Force, Spanish Air Force, and Finnish Air Force only) or
- up to 3× 330 US gallons (1,200 l; 270 imp gal) Sargent Fletcher drop tanks for ferry flight or extended range/loitering time.
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You mean they aren't speed holes and an actual pizza box?
On a serious note, the crooked pylons on the E/F/G bother me. Somebody should be permanently mounted on a stick over that one.
On a serious note, the crooked pylons on the E/F/G bother me. Somebody should be permanently mounted on a stick over that one.