For this fifth and final installment illustrating some of the various loads tested on the A-7A Mock up go from the mundane (slicks and snakes) to the ALDS. Enjoy!
Here are MK-81 slicks and Snakeyes along with MK-82 Snakeyes sharing the wing of the mock up.
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| LTV-65500U-A-7A-Mockup-MK-82-MK82-Snakeye-MK-81-Snakeye-19640623 (VAHF Collection) |
Next up the deadly combination of the AGM-45 Shrike and the MK-57 (Later designated B57) and MK-43 (Later designated B43) nuclear bombs.
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| CVC-65412U-A-7A-Mock-up-Shrike-MK-57-MK-43-19640612 (VAHF Collection) |
This load is a MK-20 Smoke Tank and MK-116 Weteye chemical bombs.
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| LTV-65530U-A-7A-Mock-up-MK-12-Smoke-Tank-and-Weteyes-19640625 (VAHF Collection) |
Finally, the series will end with a bit of a mystery. This store is listed as the AERO-18A ALSD. Searching the ole interwebs for AERO-18A ALSD brings up Aero L-39, lots of drug references (LSD) but nothing that looks like a combination ECM pod and external fuel tank, If anyone out there can add something, please do!
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| CVC-65421U-A-7A-Mock-up-AERO-18A-ALSD-19640616 (VAHF Collection) |
That concludes this five part series on external loads hung on the A-7A full scale mock up, Maybe there was something new or of interest to you.
Bravo Zulu, Bill!
ReplyDeleteOkay, I get from here (https://muckrock.s3.amazonaws.com/foia_files/Morisy_FOIA_FA_-_13-0036_dpg_1964.pdf) that it is an Aero-18A Airborne Line Source Disseminator. I then get from here https://books.google.com/books?id=zOyPzT5CmqkC&lpg=PA17&ots=OQFJsuVTpo&dq=line%20source%20disseminator&pg=PA17#v=onepage&q=line%20source%20disseminator&f=false that a line source disseminator is a germ or biological weapon dispersal mechanism. So here we have a SLUF with the ability to carry WMD of every stripe and variety. Jiminy. Thanks for your posts - they are wonderful.
ReplyDeleteThank you for the information Ran!
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