Selfie My @rse!
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Selfie My @rse!
Missile selfie: Did this Aussie pilot just take the best 'Top Gun' photo ever? - ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)
I can see the GoPro on the canopy bow!
Great "shot" though... Must be using that new thronomister-based rocket fuel: no smoke or flames!
I can see the GoPro on the canopy bow!
Great "shot" though... Must be using that new thronomister-based rocket fuel: no smoke or flames!
The missile's engine doesn't fire until the missile drops away from the aircraft. See the following video of an AMRAAM launch:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HaARvDSPbYY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HaARvDSPbYY
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I'm tipping that the naysayers here would have this photo in a 1000x1500 print in pride of place if they'd even had the chance to take it themselves.
p.s the AGM-88 is smokeless and solid fueled.
p.s the AGM-88 is smokeless and solid fueled.
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Originally Posted by Banjo
Feeling out gunned and out done by a gen y are we....
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The missile's engine doesn't fire until the missile drops away from the aircraft. See the following video of an AMRAAM launch:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HaARvDSPbYY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HaARvDSPbYY
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Originally Posted by Hempy
Standard NATO is now white and two.
Strobe Runner:
The missile in the video I posted is supposedly an AIM-120 AMRAAM. I posted it only to show that air-launched missiles fall away from the aircraft before the propellant ignites.
The missile being launched by the EA-18G in Bloggsy's original photo is an AGM-88 HARM.
HARM not AMRAAM
The missile being launched by the EA-18G in Bloggsy's original photo is an AGM-88 HARM.
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Reflection is more likely the ALQ-218 antenna pod.
Outboard pylon each side carry AGM-88.
Photo still looks cool.
edit for Megan below.
You lost me there. Are there some words missing, or is my comprehension lacking?
18G only carries AGM-88 on stations 2 & 10. That image shows S10 with a LAU-118 rail as it would have to be to carry HARM. Interestingly S2 has what appears to be a LAU-127 rail (AIM-132, AIM-120 etc.).
Outboard pylon each side carry AGM-88.
Photo still looks cool.
edit for Megan below.
You lost me there. Are there some words missing, or is my comprehension lacking?
18G only carries AGM-88 on stations 2 & 10. That image shows S10 with a LAU-118 rail as it would have to be to carry HARM. Interestingly S2 has what appears to be a LAU-127 rail (AIM-132, AIM-120 etc.).
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Now that's a REAL selfie!
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GoPro on auto & single frame taken then helped with a little photoshop - slight reflection and minor parallax lens distortion gives it away.
Prefer Capn Rex's - (& the Melbourne version done by the News Limited snapper in 2013)
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Prefer Capn Rex's - (& the Melbourne version done by the News Limited snapper in 2013)
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