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Jack Cook
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Here's a shot my step-dad took while flying A-6Es with VA-75 in the late 70 s in the Med. Station 1 has a MER and station 2 has a drop tank but what's that on station 3 (centerline). Hint, I could tell ya but then i'd have to kill'ya.
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Pave Knife pod or something like that?

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Dang beat me to it!

I was gonna ask if this answered your question...

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Doesn't look like a Mk43 though...


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I would think the A6 would be too slow for a Nuke strike???

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I would think the A6 would be too slow for a Nuke strike???


Naw, even a Skyraider can do it. You pop up and get altitutde, then dive, pull up at the bottom of the dive and as you go vertical you release the nuke in a lobbing arc. You continue to pull back and when your inverted you roll over and boogie for home. At least thats what I did last time I nuked someone in a sim. :)

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Does kind of look like a Genie!

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Dang beat me to it!

I was gonna ask if this answered your question...

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Doesn't look like a Mk43 though...


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N3Njeff wrote:
I would think the A6 would be too slow for a Nuke strike???


Hey, it's faster than the other two aircraft that have dropped nuclear weapons in combat (e.g. B-29s).

Contrary to popular belief, aircraft don't have to be extremely fast to drop a nuclear freefall bomb from medium altitude. The wicked shockwave effects that you see in the movies are a result of the blast front reflecting off the ground and creating something called a mach stem.

That mach stem doesn't exist up at altitude. Without getting into specific numbers, delivery aircraft won't have any problems with that blast front at altitude.

The loft technique that Scott mentioned (or you can subsitute that delivery for just being able to haul ass, like a F-111) is only needed if the bomb is going to be delivered at low altitude.


With respect to the A-6 picture...it doesn't look like a B43 or B57 bomb, which were the primary n-word bombs that the Navy used. So my vote is with the Pave Knife pod, Pave Spike, or some version of that.
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Do-do-da-da!

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Am I the only sick pup here that gets a woody at the site of a sun on earth?



Nope...

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m50a1ontos wrote:
It's a Pave Knife...we got one.

http://www.chinalakealumni.org/IMAGES/M ... eKnife.jpg


Well, that's what it looks like but 'ole Jack says no... :?



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Am I the only sick pup here that gets a woody at the site of a sun on earth?



Nope...

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Nope times two...

Maybe we should start a 'big-boom' thread...


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