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Posted by berny13
on Thursday, November 13, 2003 4:47 PM
The tail hook is lowered only when in the landing pattern. The pictures you see is when they are in the pattern. The pilot goes through a pre landing checklist which calls for him to drop the hook at a specific time. This is usually on the first pass off the right side of the carrier. This is also the time that he would dump fuel to get down to landing weight.
It is now called precision strike. A flight of F-14's, each loaded with two 2,000 pound LGB's can put their bombs on target and destroy selected targets. This is six or eight bombs per selected target.
Missiles are carried for self defence only and usually consist of one or two short range and medium range missiles. If flying escort or CAP the missile load out would be 2 AIM-9's, 2 AIM-7's or two AIM-120's and two AIM-54's.
Berny
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