"tumbling dice jaguar mirage bombs and racks?" Topic
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| wardog | 14 Mar 2010 1:00 p.m. PST |
recently got the tumbling dice jaguar aircraft but it carries what appears to be bombs on the four corners of the fuselage (like a f15 would carry sparrows)but any pictures i have seen shows the jaguar with a single bombrack positioned in the centre and further back on the fuselage. are these objects bombs or something else? the mirage 5 has 2 bombs positioned under the air inlet vanes at the front of plane. pictures i have seen show 1 rack centre of fuselage half way back ,same question as above are they something else |
| Khazarmac | 14 Mar 2010 4:46 p.m. PST |
As far as I am aware the Jaguar did not have pylons/mounts to take bombs or missiles as you describe. That layout is found on the Tornados, but not on the Jaguar (happy to be corrected though). I also don't think that the Mirage 5 has mounts as you describe, but the Mirage 2000 does. |
| Garand | 14 Mar 2010 6:16 p.m. PST |
The Wiki page has a plan view diagram showing the hardpoints: link 5 hardpoints in total, 4 on the wings, one under fuselage. Damon. |
| Fatman | 15 Mar 2010 2:16 a.m. PST |
Yep the Jag' is wrong, however the Mirage V is right. The fuselage racks will only take bombs, I think they are a bit far forward but I'm not sure. Fatman |
| Tom Bryant | 15 Mar 2010 9:45 p.m. PST |
Are you sure they are "on the corners" as you say or could they be on a centerline Multiple Ejector Rack ( MER ) [See the section titled Ejector Racks here: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hardpoint for more info.] It could be possible that the Jag in question is carrying an MER loaded with 4 not the maximum of 6 bombs or missiles. Just a thought. Did the RAF even use MERs? |
| wardog | 17 Mar 2010 5:04 a.m. PST |
thanks guys
tom definetly not mer rack on jaguar, bombs? 1 each four corner
fatman pictures i seen form mirage v shows them way further back .maybe the israeli copy of the mirage v have racks in this position i know the kfir has .maybe i should paint and use this mirage v as israeli only |
| Buff Orpington | 25 Mar 2010 9:02 a.m. PST |
As mentioned above the Jags in RAF service only had one fuselage hardpoint, usually taken up with an external fuel tank(or a recce pod on 2 & 41 squadrons). You couldn't fit hardpoints on the edges as that's where the cannon were. |
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