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Hey I was reading through the topic on Yojimbo's drawing and saw you stated that you will never see stations 5,6,and 7 all loaded at once. Is this a weight issue or just not enough room?

High On The Hog

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Hey I was reading through the topic on Yojimbo's drawing and saw you stated that you will never see stations 5,6,and 7 all loaded at once. Is this a weight issue or just not enough room?

High On The Hog
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Not enough room. It's a pylon spacing issue. I also remember something from ground school about potential for bomb collision upon release if all three were stuffed with ordnance...bad idea.

Hope this helps.



ATTACK!

Ok, I'll ask a stupid question: what would happen if the bombs did collide? Would they whack together and possibily knock off fins or hit the airframe? Or could they possibily go BOOM?

Ted

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Ted how about we ask air2mud to test out your hypothesis. lol

Some how I think he is telling us to go to hell as he reads this.

Matt

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Ted how about we ask air2mud to test out your hypothesis. lol
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That's what the boys at Nellis and Eglin get paid the big bucks to do.

Tedg, what you said about them colliding, knocking off tailfins, hitting the airframe...all are possible. All have bad results. With the way the bombs are fused currently, most likely they won't go off...but you never know. I seem to recall reading about the A-6 having problems during Vietnam with bombs coming off the jet and exploding almost immediately thereafter. You can imagine what happened to the jet.

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Some how I think he is telling us to go to hell as he reads this.
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Not at all. You guys just gave me reason to go back to the books and recheck another limitation that was slowly making its way to the dark recesses of my skull.



ATTACK!

One of the biggest problems associated with bomb collision is that the bombs won't be going where you're trying to drop them. The bombs would most likely not fuse just after leaving the aircraft, but can fuze after the safety delay. Over here, I had one bomb fuze off of another bomb at about 8000MSL which blew another bomb off course by about 100-200m or so. This just happened to occur during CAS with troops within a click and we were just lucky that the bomb erred to the enemy side.

Of course, there is also the possibility of bomb/aircraft collision which can present a host of new problems in the equation. Back at DM, we found an aircraft with a dent and a big blue scape of paint in the middle of it. Turns out that a BDU-50 had somehow found it's way into the panel beneath the ammo storage drum before it fell.

So tiny you were dropping them the old fashioned way no fancy laser or gps for you it sounds like right?

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So tiny you were dropping them the old fashioned way no fancy laser or gps for you it sounds like right?
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Nothin' fancy over here. We can drop LGBs, but that would require the assistance of a laser-capable platform or ground units. We've just been dropping dumb Mk-82s. They blow up vehicles just as well as laser guided ones do.