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From: faatcrl!jimb@gvlv2.gvl.unisys.com (Jim Burwell)
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Subject: Re: a10 air-to-air missile seen
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Date: 21 Feb 91 02:42:33 GMT
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From: faatcrl!jimb@gvlv2.gvl.unisys.com (Jim Burwell)

objy!prefect.Berkeley.EDU!peter@uunet.UU.NET {Peter Moore} writes:



> Recently i was watching CNN and they showed a short spot of an A10 rolling
>  by on the taxi way before a mission. The outer Pylon had what was most 
>  certainly an air to air missle on it. I think it was a Sidewinder.  The
>  missle was long and thin, where anti-armor missles are shorter and much
>  thicker in relation to length.

Hmmm.  Well, if you look in last week's Time {Nov 11 ?  The one with headline
_The War Comes Home_ on it, with a picture of one of the Marines who died 
(Jenkins) in dress uniform}, there is a picture of a crew working on an A10,
(mounting a Mavrick, I believe).  The picture is taken from the end of the
left wing, where there was a PAIR of what I'm positive are AIM-9M Sidewinders.  
{I had my hands all over one at a Air Show a few months ago which was mounted
 on the wingtip of an F-16A (Those rollerons are sure neat!!).  That's until
 an SP kindly asked me to put the rear-stabs back together and leave the poor
 missle alone. :-}
It's interesting that there were TWO of them, which might imply that there's
a second pair on the other (right) wing, unless they balanced the other side
with something of equivelent weight/drag.  But it would seem like an odd thing
to do, unless the particular payload it was taking up required things to
be mounted that way.


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