Warloads!

A few Gulf War A-10s with similar load outs using different types of CBUs: 2x AGM 65s, 4x CBUs, 2x AIM-9s, 1 ECM pod

SUU-30B

CBU-87

Mk.20s

Still looking for the triple Maverick Rack as a combat load, and not an air show display.

Found it!  A 23rd TFW A-10 with the triple launcher mounted... but only 2 Mavericks are carried in this photo

Cool Warthog photos, Stik! You must have a pretty big personal collection.

Unfortunately, I couldn't find any of my Harrier photos. Probably lost them during my divorce a few years ago. I did find a couple of photos that I took while on the USS Saipan of a couple of AH-1Ws undergoing maintenance with a BUNCH of panels removed. I'll have to post them somewhere.

Those are just ones that I found on a Desert Storm website. None of them are ones that I took. I have a few A-10 photos in my album, but they are all in flight/in action stuff and not scanned. The 23rd was stationed nearby at England AFB when I was at Ft. Polk so I got to see those boys a LOT.

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Here are a couple Desert Storm F-4G load outs slightly different from the norm

4 x AGM-88 HARM plus ALQ 131 pod in theleft front missile well

2 x AGM-88 outboard, 2 x AGM -65 inboard, 2 x  AIM-7 rear missile wells, 1 x ALQ-119 left front missile well...

Sweet pics. This is interesting to me as I have a Weasel on the go atm, the Hasegawa kit. Is this pic an actual Desert Storm time frame, or later Southern, Northern watch era? Also, The pod looks like the later ALQ-184 correct?, as the 119 was not used by Phantoms in DS? And the Sparrows, are they the Aim-7Ms, painted in light ghost gray? or earlier Es in white?

I enlarged the photo and reversed the colors and it looks like the Phantom II has AIM-7 with dark colored fins. I was told that in the middle 1980s when the missiles started to be delivered in LGG that older AIM-7E and AIM-7F that went to the depot for inspection and maintiance were repainted with the new colors.  

Early versions of the AN/ALQ-184 entered service in 1989 

Nathan T

Sweet pics. This is interesting to me as I have a Weasel on the go atm, the Hasegawa kit. Is this pic an actual Desert Storm time frame, or later Southern, Northern watch era? Also, The pod looks like the later ALQ-184 correct?, as the 119 was not used by Phantoms in DS? And the Sparrows, are they the Aim-7Ms, painted in light ghost gray? or earlier Es in white?

 

Yes, those are Desert Storm photos. Southern and Northern Watch SEAD sorties were flown by Idaho ANG Weasels w/no tail codes, just the Idaho logo

You're right about the ECM pod, it is an ALQ-184 and not a -119. The two pods are very similar in appearance. I know that F-16s carried -119s in ODS, and thought the Weasels may have also.

I've got a F-4G Weasel project going currently as well, but I am going to do as one of the final combat ID ANG birds.

Thanks for the confirmation Stik. Now back to my build...